{"id":17621,"date":"2016-07-23T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17621"},"modified":"2016-07-23T20:52:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:52:17","slug":"red-sun-in-a-smoldering-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17621","title":{"rendered":"Red sun in a smoldering sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a 12,000 acre brush fire my first day here in L.A.  Half the sky is a clear bright robin&#8217;s egg blue, the other half an ominously smoldering ochre.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a photo I took today from my friend&#8217;s car:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ash_sky.png\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The red sun hangs high in the brooding summer sky, shining through the smoldering ash like a drop of fresh blood:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/red_sun2.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On such a day, I am glad I do not believe in omens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a 12,000 acre brush fire my first day here in L.A. Half the sky is a clear bright robin&#8217;s egg blue, the other half an ominously smoldering ochre. Here is a photo I took today from my friend&#8217;s car: The red sun hangs high in the brooding summer sky, shining through the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red sun in a smoldering sky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17621"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17630,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions\/17630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}