{"id":38,"date":"2005-08-25T05:19:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T05:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2005-08-25T05:19:33","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T05:19:33","slug":"beautiful-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/25\/beautiful-thunderstorm","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/colorado-2005-week-3\/2005_08_23_thunderstorm_still\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/colorado-2005-week-3\/2005_08_23_thunderstorm_still.thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\" title=\"A beautiful thunderstorm\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"2\" alt=\"Lightning lights up a cloud\"\/><\/a>Yesterday evening, we were in Colorado Springs. Looking back towards Mike and Chris&#8217;s house, we saw a beautiful thundercloud: white in the fading light, and more active than I had ever seen before; flashes of lightning illuminated the cloud every few seconds. Mike videoed it for a while; the photo shows one flash. To give an estimate of the size of the cloud, the buildings in the foreground are less than 1 kilometer away; the cloud is more than 30 kilometers (20 miles) away. I&#8217;ll try to put the video up at some point, but cannot convert it to a reasonable size at the moment (the original is 89Mb for just over 1 minute&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening, we were in Colorado Springs. Looking back towards Mike and Chris&#8217;s house, we saw a beautiful thundercloud: white in the fading light, and more active than I had ever seen before; flashes of lightning illuminated the cloud every few seconds. Mike videoed it for a while; the photo shows one flash. To give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/25\/beautiful-thunderstorm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beautiful thunderstorm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}