{"id":5649,"date":"2015-07-04T17:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T00:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/gun-shaped-cloud-hole\/"},"modified":"2015-07-04T17:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T00:26:01","slug":"gun-shaped-cloud-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/gun-shaped-cloud-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun-Shaped Cloud Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gun-hole.jpg' title='Gun-Shaped Cloud Hole'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gun-hole.jpg' alt='Gun-Shaped Cloud Hole' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verna looked out the front window today and saw this hole in the clouds that appeared to resemble a semi-automatic pistol. I went out front and took this photo of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling from an <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/a-helicopter-shaped-cloud\/\">article we posted<\/a> about eighteen months ago:<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna looked out the front window today and saw this hole in the clouds that appeared to resemble a semi-automatic pistol. I went out front and&#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-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-stuff","category-photography","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}