{"id":17109,"date":"2011-09-05T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T15:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=17109"},"modified":"2011-08-28T19:47:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T01:47:01","slug":"our-strange-sky-the-pileus-iridescent-cloud-of-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/our-strange-sky-the-pileus-iridescent-cloud-of-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Strange Sky: The Pileus Iridescent Cloud of Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110824.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/iridescent_havens_750-e1314582251986.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"The sky was all rainbow\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17110\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110824.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size <\/a>and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. The above image was taken just after the picturesque sight was noticed by chance by a photographer in Ethiopia. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110824.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">APOD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. The above image was taken just after the picturesque sight was noticed by chance by a photographer in Ethiopia. via APOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[516,4549,2771,1637,4548,4551,4550,10],"class_list":["post-17109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-world","tag-clouds","tag-ethiopia","tag-light-show","tag-our-strange-sky","tag-pileus-iridescent-cloud","tag-prism","tag-rainbow-connections","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17111,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions\/17111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}