{"id":4512,"date":"2015-03-18T02:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T07:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2015-03-18T02:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T07:24:49","slug":"late-for-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4512","title":{"rendered":"Late for the party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/03\/weak_auroras_33458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/03\/weak_auroras_33458.jpg\" alt=\"weak_auroras_33458\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/03\/weak_auroras_33458.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/03\/weak_auroras_33458-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/03\/weak_auroras_33458-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I had my phone on vibrate Monday night, so I didn&#8217;t get the aurora alert when they began blazing.\u00a0 Then I watched in agony all day as the <a title=\"K-Index explained\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/products\/planetary-k-index\" target=\"_blank\">K-index<\/a> shot up to (and hovered at) a scorching 8!\u00a0 Then the clouds began to roll in.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Zach sent me photos later Tuesday evening with some really nice auroras, but he had to head considerably north and east of Bismarck to escape the thick clouds.\u00a0 I took a gamble that I could have simliar luck and agreed to meet him at the abandoned church at Arena.<\/p>\n<p>I got the last fleeting bit of aurora borealis as it faded from view.\u00a0 Dang.\u00a0 Better luck next time, I hope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my phone on vibrate Monday night, so I didn&#8217;t get the aurora alert when they began blazing.\u00a0 Then I watched in agony all day as the K-index shot up to (and hovered at) a scorching 8!\u00a0 Then the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}