{"id":4295,"date":"2012-12-04T22:13:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T21:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2012-12-04T22:13:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T21:13:34","slug":"light_pillars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/light_pillars\/","title":{"rendered":"Light pillars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYesterday I learned what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/halo\/lpil.htm\">light pillars<\/a> are and how they arise. According to the news, these could be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dn.se\/sthlm\/inget-norrsken--men-vertikalpelare\">seen in several areas in northern Stockholm yesterday<\/a> &ndash; and, luckily for us, also from our living room window. Quite cool, and pretty as well. I only managed to catch the brightest ones in the photo but in reality we saw several more. They came and went, brighter and weaker, as the air moved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(It may seem from the photo as if the pillars are above the street light, but that&#8217;s just because they were in the same direction &ndash; in reality they were much farther away, above some unknown light source.)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Light_pillars.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learned what light pillars are and how they arise. According to the news, these could be seen in several areas in northern Stockholm yesterday &ndash; and, luckily for us, also from our living room window. Quite cool, and pretty as well. I only managed to catch the brightest ones in the photo but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","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=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}