{"id":21093,"date":"2017-09-23T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T16:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2017-09-23T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T16:02:14","slug":"jim-pic-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/09\/jim-pic-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim pic 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2107.jpg\" alt=\"multi-colored slope, Badlands South Dakota by James L. Kramer\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21094\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This has been a largely missing week for me &#8211; I&#8217;ve had the <em>time<\/em> to do stuff, but not the inclination. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>On the previous Jim pic, Jim himself stated, in a cameo, that he liked the &#8220;upcoming images&#8221; better, and so I had to delay posting them for a while, because. But I&#8217;m not in total disagreement, either &#8211; the odd colors for a hillside are rather compelling by themselves. They actually come from a series of explosions that occurred nearby in the grain storage region of South Dakota, immediately bordering the Badlands<strong>;<\/strong> first a number of wheat storage silos suffered a dust explosion, followed only a year or so later by a buckwheat accident. Thus the yellow and carmine layers. Less than three years later, a plane had to make an emergency landing at adjacent Badlands Regional Airport, and dumped its cargo of kitty litter to lighten the load. This caused a dramatic upsurge in the feral cat colonies within the region.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not buying any of this, are you?<\/p>\n<p>So I have no idea what produces the colors in these layers &#8211; probably sulfur and manganese. Maybe theodolite and parchesium. Maybe it&#8217;s Maybelline. Look, just marvel at the colors, okay?<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve looked at high magnification &#8211; there&#8217;s no fucking car in this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a largely missing week for me &#8211; I&#8217;ve had the time to do stuff, but not the inclination. Ah well. On the previous Jim pic, Jim himself stated, in a cameo, that he liked the &#8220;upcoming images&#8221; better, and so I had to delay posting them for a while, because. But I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[4043,1257,4091,4013,4092],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-badlands","tag-james-l-kramer","tag-sediment-layers","tag-south-dakota","tag-spot-the-wallaby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093","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=21093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}