{"id":828,"date":"2007-01-09T20:16:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=828"},"modified":"2011-12-24T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T20:17:08","slug":"sliver-of-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Sliver of sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/sliver_sunset1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>As I dragged my poor, dejected bones away from work today I noticed an interesting phenomenon. The sunset was taking place as it normally does, but it was only visible through a narrow band of clear skies on the horizon. Dense clouds acted as an opaque curtain above, with the horizon not far below. It was quite cool.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/sliver_sunset2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>That narrow slit in the sky, however, was going to do some pretty cool things as the sun&#8217;s rays came through it at various angles. Once the sun began to duck below the horizon, its light began to bathe the clouds with color.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/sliver_sunset3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>These photos were taken from the hill behind the University of Mary. I got more angles than these, but I think the three photos shown here best convey the story behind tonight&#8217;s dramatic skies. What turned out as just a unique window on the sunset became a diffraction grating of sorts (for you science geeks out there) and it was like experiencing three sunsets in one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I dragged my poor, dejected bones away from work today I noticed an interesting phenomenon. The sunset was taking place as it normally does, but it was only visible through a narrow band of clear skies on the horizon. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","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=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}