{"id":310,"date":"2005-09-26T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=310"},"modified":"2005-09-26T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T16:43:06","slug":"an-interesting-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/09\/an-interesting-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I left home this morning, I saw a gray blanket of clouds stretching north and south and as far east as I could see. To the west they extended to within a few hundred yards of the mountains. Based on what I could see of the mountains, I guess the clouds were at 8000 feet. And the sun was shining brightly above the clouds so the upper parts ofthe mountains were in bright sunshine. As I drove down the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorado_Front_Range\">Front Range<\/a>, I kept seeing the bright rim of light between the clouds and their shadow on the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Pity I didn&#8217;t have my camera handy to snap pictures out the car window while driving at 75 MPH.  I should have called Elaine and told her to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>When I got down into the Springs, the cloud cover was breaking up and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ems.psu.edu\/~demark\/471\/CrepuscularRays.html\">crepuscular rays<\/a> were shining through.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite like the other day where the clouds were laying at 7000 feet and I left in the bright sunlight and drove down into the cloud cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I left home this morning, I saw a gray blanket of clouds stretching north and south and as far east as I could see. To the west they extended to within a few hundred yards of the mountains. Based on what I could see of the mountains, I guess the clouds were at 8000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/09\/an-interesting-sight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An interesting sight<\/span> <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":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-50","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}