{"id":5075,"date":"2014-02-01T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T01:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/a-helicopter-shaped-cloud\/"},"modified":"2015-07-04T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T00:23:13","slug":"a-helicopter-shaped-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/a-helicopter-shaped-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"A Helicopter-Shaped Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/helicopter-cloud.jpg' title='A Helicopter-Shaped Cloud'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/helicopter-cloud.jpg' alt='A Helicopter-Shaped Cloud' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After dinner today, Verna looked out of the front window and saw a cloud that appeared to look like the silhouette of an aircraft. She grabbed her camera and got this image of the phenomenon before it morphed into a randomly shaped cloud. <\/p>\n<p>I remembered that there is a term to describe seeing objects in nature that one perceives as resembling something else. However, I could not remember the exact term so I did an internet search on &#8220;clouds that resemble things&#8221; and found the following result on <a href=\"http:\/\/askville.amazon.com\/word-nature-human--for-cloud-puppy\/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9072245\">Askville<\/a> which led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pareidolia\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong style='font-size: 1.5em'>Pareidolia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pareidolia (parr-i-DOH-lee-uh) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant, a form of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apophenia\">apophenia<\/a>. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting. And I&#8217;m still a nerd as a senior citizen. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Seeing extraterrestrial alien faces in Ice Cream: <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/alien-ice-cream\/\">Alien Frosty Paws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dinner today, Verna looked out of the front window and saw a cloud that appeared to look like the silhouette of an aircraft. She grabbed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-stuff","category-photography","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}