{"id":283,"date":"2014-08-11T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/?p=283"},"modified":"2014-12-10T23:18:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:18:41","slug":"glowing-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/2014\/08\/11\/glowing-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #222222\">10 Aug 2014, by Matt Shupe [73N, 176E]: \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2014\/08\/MoonGlow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-284\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2014\/08\/MoonGlow-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"MoonGlow\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2014\/08\/MoonGlow-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2014\/08\/MoonGlow.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>There are those days that the Earth glows in magnificent splendor.\u00a0 Today is that kind of day.\u00a0 The sun dipping down into the horizon for the first time in weeks, but not going the whole way under before heading back upwards.\u00a0 The largest full moon of the year rising from the opposite horizon.\u00a0 Sky glowing purples, oranges, reds.\u00a0 Thick, dirty ice floating on blue and black water.\u00a0 Piles of walruses in slumber on the ice.\u00a0 I spent a lot of time standing on the deck today, soaking in these scenes and enjoying the opportunity to experience them.\u00a0\u00a0 The moon has already left us, plunging back into the frozen waters.\u00a0 The sun moves higher in the sky again, stealing away the colors as the new day begins. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Aug 2014, by Matt Shupe [73N, 176E]: \u00a0 There are those days that the Earth glows in magnificent splendor.\u00a0 Today is that kind of day.\u00a0 The sun dipping down into the horizon for the first time in weeks, but not going the whole way under before heading back upwards.\u00a0 The largest full moon of&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/2014\/08\/11\/glowing-skies\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 09:44:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/icebreaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}