{"id":35743,"date":"2023-11-30T15:07:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35743"},"modified":"2023-11-30T15:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:07:37","slug":"living-in-the-past-xvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/11\/living-in-the-past-xvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the past XVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SeptemberLightning3.jpg\" alt=\"Very close ground strike lightning\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15186\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I probably shouldn&#8217;t even feature this, because it represents a stupid move on my part, a failure to register the imminent danger. I&#8217;d gone out to a nearby clearing to witness a distant thunderstorm, which petered out, but then I noticed that the clouds directly overhead were starting to get active. There were no ground strikes, not even any thunder, just cloud-to-cloud activity. Until this one. It was the only ground strike of the entire storm, but it struck within a couple hundred meters, which is way too fucking close &#8211; you&#8217;re looking <em>up<\/em> the bolt here. I <em>knew<\/em> it could happen, I just wasn&#8217;t thinking. It could easily have killed me.<\/p>\n<p>If it <em>had<\/em>, this image would possibly have garnered worldwide attention for a few days, unlike what it&#8217;s doing now. <em>I<\/em> wouldn&#8217;t have made any money from that of course, but The Girlfriend could have built a nice nest egg. <em>Kabang!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We might also conclude that there was an even worse atheist than me nearby, more deserving of the whole vengeful wrath thing. I never heard of anyone being struck, but you know, we typically don&#8217;t merit the media attention&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t even feature this, because it represents a stupid move on my part, a failure to register the imminent danger. I&#8217;d gone out to a nearby clearing to witness a distant thunderstorm, which petered out, but then I noticed that the clouds directly overhead were starting to get active. There were no ground [&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":[179,7452,6597],"class_list":["post-35743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-lightning-photography","tag-must-try-harder","tag-time-exposure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743","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=35743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}