{"id":928,"date":"2009-02-27T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2009-02-27T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:50:23","slug":"light-pillars-over-sioux-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/27\/light-pillars-over-sioux-falls\/favorite-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Pillars Over Sioux Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some after-hours stuff to do at work last night, so was there until about 1am, and got quite a show of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandnet.com\/~see\/weather\/eyes\/pillars.htm\">light pillars<\/a> on the way home. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/light_pillars_sfsd_2009-02-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/light_pillars_sfsd_2009-02-27-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"light_pillars_sfsd_2009-02-27\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-929\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the exact weather ingredients necessary for light pillars to show up, but it had rained\/sleeted\/snowed a bit earlier in the day, then the temperature had dropped from the mid-20&#8217;s to around 0&deg;F, and there wasn&#8217;t a breath of wind at that time of night. These pillars of light were all around and in all different colors; it was just breathtaking. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, I didn&#8217;t have my camera with me, but drove home, grabbed it, and went back out to try my hand at capturing the effect. I&#8217;m afraid didn&#8217;t do a very good job, but with a little time in Photoshop I was able to tweak the image a bit and ended up with a reasonable facsimile. Of course it doesn&#8217;t do justice to what I saw last night, but for that you&#8217;ll have to be on the lookout yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some after-hours stuff to do at work last night, so was there until about 1am, and got quite a show of light pillars on the way home. I don&#8217;t know the exact weather ingredients necessary for light pillars to show up, but it had rained\/sleeted\/snowed a bit earlier in the day, then the [&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":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-things","category-fun","category-the-world"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}