{"id":3616,"date":"2012-10-01T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2012-10-01T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:26:08","slug":"australian-fire-tornados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/australian-fire-tornados\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Fire Tornados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty wild; wind whipping wildfires into short-lived tornado-like smoke funnels. They call them &#8220;fire tornados&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fire_whirl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fire whirls<\/a>&#8220;, which is probably more accurate, since they probably don&#8217;t reach anywhere near the wind velocity of the real thing. Still, I&#8217;d hate to be caught in the path of something like that. <\/p>\n<p><em>Click the go button on the video then jump ahead to 1:54 to skip over the talking heads&#8217; chattering.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49985537?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/49985537\">Skyfire-a dance of giants<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/alicespringsfilmtv\">chris tangey<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty wild; wind whipping wildfires into short-lived tornado-like smoke funnels. They call them &#8220;fire tornados&#8221; or &#8220;fire whirls&#8220;, which is probably more accurate, since they probably don&#8217;t reach anywhere near the wind velocity of the real thing. Still, I&#8217;d hate to be caught in the path of something like that. Click the go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[430,431,432],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-stuff","tag-australia","tag-fire","tag-outback"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}