{"id":54,"date":"2001-09-24T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2001-09-25T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/09\/24\/54.html"},"modified":"2001-09-24T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2001-09-25T02:35:10","slug":"boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/09\/24\/boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Half an hour ago, booming noises from outside summoned me to the window.  Here on the fourth floor at work, a long row of big glass windows gives us a pretty good view of this area of the Peninsula.  The sun was just setting (barely visible under the bottom edge of a thick dark cloud), and lightning began to strike all around, though it wasn't raining (or perhaps there was a very light rain that I couldn't see).  Very exciting.  I was counting seconds: some strikes maybe ten miles off, getting closer, and then a few minutes of very close strikes, bright tall jagged spikes splitting the sky, thunder immediately afterward.  We saw some sort of power pole about two blocks from here get hit&#8212;I've never seen anything actually hit by lightning before.  A puff of smoke, a tremendous crash of thunder, and our lights went out.  They came back on a couple seconds later, though, and that was when it began to rain.<\/p>\n<p>All the excitement died down shortly afterward.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half an hour ago, booming noises from outside summoned me to the window. Here on the fourth floor at work,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}