{"id":82,"date":"2008-06-18T06:24:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-06-18T06:24:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:24:22","slug":"aurora-borealis-shining-down-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/2008\/aurora-borealis-shining-down-in-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Borealis shining down in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/morning_glow2a.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[82]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84\" title=\"morning_glow2a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/morning_glow2a-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise June 18\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Muppet Movie<\/em> had a number of great lines, great songs, and great lines in great songs &#8212; if you enjoy playing with words. This morning we had a glorious natural sunrise phenomenon that inspired Nancy to quote a song from the movie.<\/p>\n<p>We had some thunderstorms roll through the South Plains last night, and around 8:30 our power went out for about three hours. So when we got up in the morning, we went through the ritual of re-setting the clocks and radios and anything else with real-time timers and checking other appliances for signs of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were still some lingering storms as the sun began to rise. For just a few minutes, as the rising sun peeked over the horizon but under the clouds there was a grand and glorious glow. I motioned Nancy to come outside, and her immediate response was &#8220;Aurora Borealis shining down in Dallas&#8230;&#8221; to which the only response could be &#8220;can you picture that?&#8221; <em>Picture<\/em> that?<\/p>\n<p>Picture! It was a transient phenomenon, so I ran back into the house to snag a camera and did manage to get a couple of quick shots before it entirely disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muppet Movie had a number of great lines, great songs, and great lines in great songs &#8212; if you enjoy playing with words. This morning we had a glorious natural sunrise phenomenon that inspired Nancy to quote a song from the movie. We had some thunderstorms roll through the South Plains last night, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musings","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}