{"id":729,"date":"2018-07-17T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T04:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?p=729"},"modified":"2018-07-17T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T04:59:36","slug":"summer-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2018\/07\/17\/summer-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t rained in 10+ days until today. As I got back from my run today the skies started to turn a little on the dark side. I looked up the weather and saw this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-730\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.24.50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-730\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.24.50-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.24.50-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.24.50-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.24.50.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thunderstorms brewing July 17, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m standing at the blue dot on that map. The rain would soon come:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-731\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.25.22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-731\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.25.22-1024x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.25.22-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.25.22-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-17-20.25.22-768x400.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thunderstorm arrival July 17, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then the rains came! The temperature dropped from the 90\u00ba&#8217;s to the low 70\u00ba&#8217;s. It&#8217;s very nice outside right now. And clear. That&#8217;s the fun part of these storms. It rains, the environment changes completely and all the night creatures come out. The frogs, for example, are now out like mad. The mama deer and her two new fawns also came out for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I came inside, grabbed some dinner and came into the radio room to chat with some friends. Mongrel finally joined me. First on my desk. Then on my lap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-732\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.11.57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-732 \" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.11.57-e1531889730192-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.11.57-e1531889730192-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.11.57-e1531889730192-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.11.57-e1531889730192-768x1022.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mongrel on my radio desk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-733\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.12.24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-733 \" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.12.24-e1531889821139-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.12.24-e1531889821139-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.12.24-e1531889821139-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-18-00.12.24-e1531889821139-768x1022.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mongrel now on my lap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Soon it&#8217;ll be time to go to sleep! Actually, time to go to sleep now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t rained in 10+ days until today. As I got back from my run today the skies started to turn a little on the dark side. I looked up the weather and saw this: I&#8217;m standing at the blue dot on that map. The rain would soon come: Then the rains came! The temperature &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2018\/07\/17\/summer-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer Rain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}