{"id":3611,"date":"2018-07-18T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2018-07-18T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:26:39","slug":"18jul2018-ocf-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/18\/18jul2018-ocf-update\/","title":{"rendered":"18JUL2018 &#8211; OCF Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings readers old and new.\u00a0 As is my want, or as less pretentious people would say, my habit, I like to let you know what is coming up on the site.\u00a0 This week is my annual stay-cation.\u00a0 For eight full days I make believe that my corporate masters have been swallowed up by some beneficent plague that only spared the good.\u00a0 I revel in the joys of summer and put all cares aside.\u00a0 After monsoon-like thunderstorms deluged us yesterday, the world has been swept clean and the air is hot and dry just the way I like it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hosting my annual family reunion on Saturday but with days off on both sides of the big event, I see plenty of time to produce excellent OCF posts all week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m renting the &#8220;Contemporary Series&#8221; 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