{"id":353,"date":"2015-06-24T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-06-24T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:48:26","slug":"a-break-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/a-break-in-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"A break in the clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a recent afternoon thunderstorm, I was in my office editing, with the blinds closed to minimize stray light on my monitors, and out of the corner of my eye I noticed a glow from outside. I heard it thundering and knew that it had been raining fairly hard for the past hour or so, so I was confused by the sudden brightness. I opened the blinds to see a golden glow of light from between the dark storm clouds.<\/p>\n

I grabbed my camera and (not unlike a crazy person) ran outside to capture this odd event. There was a large break in the storm clouds that allowed the setting sun’s rays through.<\/p>\n

\"Light<\/a>
Light From The Other Side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Known amongst photographers as “godrays”, they are fitting in name. I snapped away for a minute or two, capturing a flock of birds on the left part of one frame.\u00a0 As quickly as it arrived, the break closed up and disappeared. Moments later, it rained harder than I have seen in a very long time.<\/p>\n

\"Storm<\/a>
Storm Rays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a recent afternoon thunderstorm, I was in my office editing, with the blinds closed to minimize stray light on my monitors, and out of the corner of my eye I noticed a glow from outside. I heard it thundering and knew that it had been raining fairly hard for the past hour or so, … Continue reading A break in the clouds<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[35,36,34],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","tag-clouds","tag-godrays","tag-storm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40I5Y-5H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}