{"id":901,"date":"2010-06-18T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortispress.com\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2010-06-18T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:24:19","slug":"on-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"On Thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrote this entry late yesterday afternoon while sitting on the back porch, watching a thunderstorm try to form around us.<\/p>\n<p>I love\u00a0 thunder and lightening &#8211; although the latter can be scary when alone on the flat prairie or above timberline in the Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain thunderstorms are my favorite. Last summer we saw several, one which left a double rainbow framing the jagged peaks above Ouray, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven will be that beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>And I love the smell of rain, which is pleasant enough on the dry plains of Texas, but is absolutely intoxicating when mixed with the scent of pines.<\/p>\n<p>Do I sound homesick for the mountains? I am. And, in just a little over three weeks, Char and I will be back in our beloved Ouray, maybe &#8211; hopefully &#8211; watching an afternoon shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrote this entry late yesterday afternoon while sitting on the back porch, watching a thunderstorm try to form around us. I love\u00a0 thunder and lightening &#8211; although the latter can be scary when alone on the flat prairie or above timberline in the Rockies. Mountain thunderstorms are my favorite. Last summer we saw several, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}