{"id":5996,"date":"2012-07-04T22:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2012-07-09T22:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T22:59:04","slug":"fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this Wednesday, we had initially planned to drive all the way to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%BDvatn\">M\u00fdvatn<\/a>, a picturesque lake almost two hours away. \u00a0When the day dawned, we discovered that Hildur Sif had a fever and was acting rather sluggish. \u00a0We therefore cancelled our plans (the lake isn&#8217;t going anywhere any time soon) and we (the four of us) called our friend <a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/northern-exposure\/\">Kata<\/a>, and invited ourselves over in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5997\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5997\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5997\" title=\"IMG_9337\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9337.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9337-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halli entertaining a sick Hildur Sif and a spry Arnar Freyr.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5998\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9348.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5998\" title=\"IMG_9348\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9348.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9348-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When we tried to depart we found that our car was out of batteries. It turned out Bjarki had fiddled with the ceiling-light and it had drained the battery over-night. Since it&#8217;s so bright out now, there was no way to spot it. Thankfully, we bought starter-cables this winter, so we weren&#8217;t stranded for very long.<br \/>(Side-note: How can it be this day and age, and cars STILL aren&#8217;t intelligent enough to make sure to conserve enough battery power to get themselves started?!?! Seriously, how hard is it to use one of those on-board computers to notice that an indoor light has been on for say 2 hours, and do something about it?!)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5999\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9349.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5999\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5999\" title=\"IMG_9349\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9349.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9349-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Kata&#8217;s house. We all went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundlaug.is\/nordurland-eystra-sundlaugar\/107-ithrottamidstod-eyjafjardarsveitar-vid-hrafnagilsskola\">Hrafnagil swimming pool<\/a> (where I did my customary 1 km) and then hung out chatting until close to dinner time, when we headed back to home-base. \u00a0Also, it appears that all self-respecting swimming pools in Iceland sport three-story high slides these days. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Games were played long into the night. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Wednesday, we had initially planned to drive all the way to M\u00fdvatn, a picturesque lake almost two hours away. \u00a0When the day dawned, we discovered that Hildur Sif had a fever and was acting rather sluggish. \u00a0We therefore cancelled our plans (the lake isn&#8217;t going anywhere any time soon) and we (the four<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/fever\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}