{"id":751,"date":"2007-12-04T07:42:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/golden-beacon\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T07:55:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:55:37","slug":"golden-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/golden-beacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Beacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this beautiful picture on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&#038;day=28&#038;month=11&#038;year=2007\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a> last week. Here&#8217;s the story about what you&#8217;re seeing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/toronto-sun-pillar.jpg\" title=\"sun-pillar\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image750\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/toronto-sun-pillar.jpg\" alt=\"sun-pillar\" width=\"230\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>GOLDEN BEACON: The sun was setting in Toronto last week when, suddenly, a golden beacon leaped up from the horizon. &#8220;It lasted a good 15 minutes,&#8221; reports Damir who took this picture:<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;beacon&#8221; is a sun pillar created by plate-shaped ice crystals fluttering down from high cold clouds. Flat sides of the crystals catch the rays of the setting sun and bend them into a tall luminous column as shown. Look for sun pillars when the sun is near the horizon and shining through high clouds&#8211;they&#8217;re a nice addition to any autumn sunset.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click on the image for the large, majestic photo. And be sure to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a> &#8211; you&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this beautiful picture on SpaceWeather.com last week. Here&#8217;s the story about what you&#8217;re seeing: GOLDEN BEACON: The sun was setting in Toronto last week&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-nerd-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}