{"id":1262,"date":"2008-06-11T10:24:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2008-06-11T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T14:24:29","slug":"special-effects-courtesy-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/special-effects-courtesy-of-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Effects courtesy of &#8220;physics&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/06\/chaiten5a.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Orannis\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/06\/_chaiten5a.jpg\" title=\"Orannis\" alt=\"Orannis\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>..and here, ladies and gentlemen, you see the sky over <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_characters_in_the_Old_Kingdom_Trilogy#Nicholas_Sayre\">Sayre<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;lightning farm&#8221; as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_characters_in_the_Old_Kingdom_Trilogy#Orannis\">Orannis the Destroyer<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abhorsentrilogy.com\/abhorsen.html\">freed from his bindings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OK, maybe not, although that&#8217;s pretty much exactly how I pictured that in my head.<\/p>\n<p>What you&#8217;re actually looking at there is the sky over <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chait%C3%A9n_%28volcano%29\">the Chaiten Volcano<\/a> in Chile. No photoshoppery, the image is directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/06\/chaiten_volcano_still_active.html\">the Big Picture feature on the volcano<\/a> at The Boston Globe. There are many other impressive photos there. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">..and here, ladies and gentlemen, you see the sky over Sayre&#8216;s &#8220;lightning farm&#8221; as Orannis the Destroyer is freed from his bindings. OK, maybe not, although that&#8217;s pretty much exactly how I pictured that in my head. What you&#8217;re actually looking at there is the sky over the Chaiten Volcano in Chile. No photoshoppery, the image is directly from the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/special-effects-courtesy-of-physics\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[458,51,35,38],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-books","tag-photography","tag-storm","tag-weather","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-km","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}