{"id":8939,"date":"2007-08-24T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/lightning\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:58","slug":"lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8811-scaled.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Lightning on 24-Aug-2007.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>1) Photographing lightning by hand is hard.<\/p>\n<p>2) I&#8217;m not sure why the lightning has a hole in it. Either I was really lucky and caught something weird, or it&#8217;s water or some other object on the lens. I think it&#8217;s probably the latter, even though I&#8217;d really prefer the former. I also have never seen water distort in a way which would distort that way, I don&#8217;t think. Opinions?<\/p>\n<p>Now that the storm has passed and sirens have stopped sounding I can go to Costco and then get some Thai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning on 24-Aug-2007. 1) Photographing lightning by hand is hard. 2) I&#8217;m not sure why the lightning has a hole in it. Either I was really lucky and caught something weird, or it&#8217;s water or some other object on the lens. I think it&#8217;s probably the latter, even though I&#8217;d really prefer the former. I\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12677,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions\/12677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}