{"id":13935,"date":"2014-01-08T01:44:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T06:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=13935"},"modified":"2014-01-08T01:44:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T06:44:01","slug":"yeah-i-um","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2014\/01\/yeah-i-um\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I, um&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, recently a friend mentioned something about a polar vortex, and it was in the middle of an e-mail exchange that dealt significantly with hexagons. I <em>really<\/em> don&#8217;t pay too much attention to news, TV, or weather reports, and did not know at all that this term applied to the notorious weather we&#8217;re having right now.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I thought he was referring to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/98699\/saturns-strange-hexagon-in-living-color\/\" target=\"_blank\">massive vortex that sits on Saturn&#8217;s north pole<\/a>, which is hexagonal<strong>:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SaturnHex-RGB-11-28-12-JMajor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><figure id=\"attachment_13936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13936\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SaturnHex-RGB-11-28-12-JMajor-580x546.jpg\" alt=\"Color-composite Cassini image of Saturn\u2019s northern hexagon (NASA\/JPL\/SSI\/Jason Major)\" width=\"580\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Color-composite Cassini image of Saturn\u2019s northern hexagon (NASA\/JPL\/SSI\/Jason Major)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><br clear=\"all\"\/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an accurate depiction of me, I admit it. I couldn&#8217;t tell you how many people have no idea this exists, though I&#8217;ve known about it for years. On the other hand, I couldn&#8217;t tell you much of anything about current events on this planet. Judge me as you will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, recently a friend mentioned something about a polar vortex, and it was in the middle of an e-mail exchange that dealt significantly with hexagons. I really don&#8217;t pay too much attention to news, TV, or weather reports, and did not know at all that this term applied to the notorious weather we&#8217;re having right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,12],"tags":[2161,2159,2160],"class_list":["post-13935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-humor","category-random","tag-barack-who","tag-polar-vortex","tag-saturn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}