{"id":1630,"date":"2017-02-25T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1630-nightfall.html"},"modified":"2017-02-25T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:36:16","slug":"nightfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1630-nightfall.html","title":{"rendered":"Nightfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2255 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"549\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1462-_MG_6987.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAn expression I have not heard in years, &#8216;nightfall&#8217; came to mind this evening and got me wondering, just when does &#8216;night fall&#8217;?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt is easy to describe moments along the way.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe moment the sun dips below the horizon.<br \/>\nThe emergence of the very first stars.<br \/>\nThe moment a feature on the horizon is lost in the darkness.<br \/>\nWhen all the night-sky&#8217;s stars become visible.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAll these moments are grey transitions until you realize you are left gazing into starry night&#8217;s sky.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo when does night fall? All I can be sure of it that it just does!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Nightfall&#8217;, 1\/60s f\/11 ISO160 13mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expression I have not heard in years, &#8216;nightfall&#8217; came to mind this evening and got me wondering, just when does &#8216;night fall&#8217;? It is easy to describe moments along the way. The moment the sun dips below the horizon. The emergence of the very first stars. The moment a feature on the horizon is &#8230; <a title=\"Nightfall\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1630-nightfall.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nightfall\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}