{"id":712,"date":"2011-09-06T11:38:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/?p=712"},"modified":"2011-09-23T13:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T20:42:41","slug":"simons-first-rainbow-and-lightening-and-thunder-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/simons-first-rainbow-and-lightening-and-thunder-and-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon’s first rainbow (and lightening and thunder and Rain!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter and Simon were watering the front yard cornfield Saturday evening when they spotted a rainbow.<\/p>\n

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Simon's rainbow<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s always hard to capture such a phenomena with a camera. It was very bright, arced over the hill up the street and even was a double for a moment. But no one cried<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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brilliant colors<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t think Simon could see the rainbow. He seemed more interested in the spectacular sunset out back — the dark shapes of the trees, utility poles and buildings against the bright sky.<\/p>\n

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Simon's sunset<\/p><\/div>\n

Then the sky turned ominous red and thunder rolled. We saw a couple bolts of lightning over Highland Park. Later during a late night feeding session, I heard rain falling. It was just a few drops. That’s something we get excited about here in Southern California. Usually we don’t get a drop from May to October so I thought Simon would have to wait until Fall to learn about precipitation. Poor kid.<\/p>\n

I miss summer thunderstorms on the East Coast. Poor me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter and Simon were watering the front yard cornfield Saturday evening when they spotted a rainbow. It’s always hard to capture such a phenomena with a camera. It was very bright, arced over the hill up the street and even was a double for a moment. But no one cried. I don’t think Simon could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,29,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-sapiens-var-peter","category-h-sapiens-var-simon","category-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}