{"id":475,"date":"2012-11-13T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/475-366-days-of-2012-day-319-afterglow.html"},"modified":"2012-11-13T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:01:00","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-319-afterglow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/475-366-days-of-2012-day-319-afterglow.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 319 &#8211; Afterglow"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:810 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/319-_MG_8218_19_20.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow many sunsets are enough sunsets?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne answer might be &#8216;at least another billion years worth&#8217;. The following 4 billion years after that will see the earth slowly steamed and the oceans boiled dry. After another 2 billion years of being torched as a red giant our sun will finally burn out into the afterglow of a white dwarf which will last trillions of years as it fades to black. Quite a lot really.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor now I am content to experience and photograph the beautiful orange sunsets which are &#8216;just right&#8217;.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 319 &#8211; Afterglow&#8217;. 1\/60s f\/22 ISO400 40mm hdr<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; How many sunsets are enough sunsets? One answer might be &#8216;at least another billion years worth&#8217;. The following 4 billion years after that will see the earth slowly steamed and the oceans boiled dry. After another 2 billion years of being torched as a red giant our sun will finally burn &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 319 &#8211; Afterglow\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/475-366-days-of-2012-day-319-afterglow.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 319 &#8211; Afterglow\">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-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}