Then they would flap their arms about, or put their hands on their head, as though I had swapped a sunny paradise for a place with constant rain and no hill in sight (and because the weather is a safe and sure topic when meeting someone new). \u00a0<\/em>“I didn’t come here for the weather” would be my standard response.<\/p>\n Weather predictions for the same day, August 8th, 2014.<\/p>\n Marc says I’m missing a spectacular rain storm in the Netherlands — the kind that messes up the sewer pipes and floods the old\u00a0neighborhood.\u00a0Spectacular to witness, but not so spectacular when those sewer pipes are underneath your doorstep.<\/p>\n Joke’s on California though.\u00a0The entire state is going through a drought.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Weather forecast from Google \/ The Weather Channel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s how a conversation would sometimes start while living in the Netherlands, especially if I met a new Dutchie: -Where are you from? -Oh, I’m from California. -California?! Why would you go here?!\u00a0 Then they would flap their arms about, or put their hands on their head, as though I had swapped a sunny paradise … Continue reading “san jose vs utrecht: the weather”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-misc","category-netherlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-iu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screenshot-2014-08-08-00.06.522.png\")
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