{"id":148804,"date":"2019-07-18T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=148804"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:34:09","slug":"tbt-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=148804","title":{"rendered":"#TBT Heat wave, overalls and halter top, linoleum and beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=30653\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Window-Boy<\/a>. We were dying of the heat (metaphorically) while many Chicagoans were <em>actually<\/em> dying of the heat. It was an historic heat wave. The air burned when you inhaled. There had been a city-wide blackout. I walked past all the cars lining the street, quietly idling, with entire families sitting inside, having picnics, mom and dad drinking wine, reading the newspaper, finding relief in the A\/C. M. and I sat on the cool linoleum floor in his kitchen, drinking the last of the cold beer which we kept in a cooler with the last of the melting ice. I was moving to New York in a month. I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=34787\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">about to get extremely ill<\/a>. Everything was ending. I was facing an entirely new life, the great unknown. And the heat wave was so extreme it was almost too hot to touch each other. Almost. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46242992631_6426_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-167636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46242992631_6426_n-1.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46242992631_6426_n-1-200x131.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46242992631_6426_n-1-400x263.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46242992631_6426_n-1-100x66.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46249452631_5458_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-167637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46249452631_5458_n-1.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46249452631_5458_n-1-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46249452631_5458_n-1-400x268.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1931410_46249452631_5458_n-1-100x67.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures taken by Window-Boy. We were dying of the heat (metaphorically) while many Chicagoans were actually dying of the heat. It was an historic heat wave. The air burned when you inhaled. There had been a city-wide blackout. I walked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=148804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[2496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148804"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206039,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148804\/revisions\/206039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}