{"id":1833,"date":"2018-11-19T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1833-aurora-borealis.html"},"modified":"2018-11-19T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:35:00","slug":"aurora-borealis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1833-aurora-borealis.html","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Borealis"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2501 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1647-1G2A6409.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Auroras have been a mystery to me my entire life, something almost never seen from southern Australia and certainly not by me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI had seen photographs, watched documentaries, even studied a little on how they are formed. Still they had remained to me in the world of myth. My visit to Norway changed everything.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy very first encounter was in the night sky of Troms\u00f8. At first I thought I was looking at wisps of cloud in the sky as if lit by city lights below. Then I noticed that hallmark green glow.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe next night up in Skjerv\u00f8y, 386 km above the arctic circle, the night sky simply took my breath away.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe watched those coloured veils of light dance across the entire sky from snow capped peaks to snow capped peaks while the calm waters of the fjords glowed green below.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Auroras truly deserve there mythical place in our imagination and not for me they are real.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Aurora Borealis&#8217;,10s f\/4 ISO3200 16mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Auroras have been a mystery to me my entire life, something almost never seen from southern Australia and certainly not by me. I had seen photographs, watched documentaries, even studied a little on how they are formed. Still they had remained to me in the world of myth. My visit to Norway changed everything. &#8230; <a title=\"Aurora Borealis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1833-aurora-borealis.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aurora Borealis\">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-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","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=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}