{"id":15151,"date":"2021-12-06T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15151"},"modified":"2021-12-07T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:04:24","slug":"daily_2508_-_blinding_lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/12\/06\/daily_2508_-_blinding_lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2508 &#8211; blinding lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2508_lights.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe neighbours have apparently bought new string lights and hung them on the fence between their garden and ours.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m normally a fan of string lights. We hang up many metres of our own, every winter. But these are an absolute monstrosity. The light they cast is very cold and incredibly bright. When they switch on, it&#8217;s like a flash. I cannot not look. They feel brighter than any other lights around me, although I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not quite as bad as that in reality but just my subjective experience, due to the contrast and the colour temperature. They pull at my attention, even though they&#8217;re far away in my peripheral vision, even though I&#8217;m looking at a well-lit screen in front of me as I&#8217;m typing this.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve only been up for two days. Perhaps I&#8217;ll get used to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbours have apparently bought new string lights and hung them on the fence between their garden and ours. I&#8217;m normally a fan of string lights. We hang up many metres of our own, every winter. But these are an absolute monstrosity. The light they cast is very cold and incredibly bright. When they switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,774,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-neighbourhood","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15153,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions\/15153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}