{"id":25790,"date":"2012-01-29T00:51:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T07:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/aurora-borealis.html"},"modified":"2012-02-01T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:37:32","slug":"aurora-borealis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/aurora-borealis.html","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Borealis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing video of the Northern Lights, via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/01\/28\/real-time-footage-of-aurora-shows-them-dancing-and-shimmering\/\" >http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/01\/28\/real-time-footage-of-aurora-shows-them-dancing-and-shimmering\/<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve seen auroras, once, a relatively feeble display, but it was amazing.  Seeing this (taken in  Tromso, Norway, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle) would be mindblowing.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><iframe type='text\/html' width='97.5%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SkiNUMKKsgM?hl=en&#038;fs=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing video of the Northern Lights, via http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/01\/28\/real-time-footage-of-aurora-shows-them-dancing-and-shimmering\/ &#8230; I&#39;ve seen auroras, once, a relatively feeble display, but it was amazing. Seeing this (taken in Tromso, Norway, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle) would be mindblowing. #ddtb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":25790,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25703,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/fire-in-the-sky.html","url_meta":{"origin":25790,"position":1},"title":"Fire in the sky","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Jan-12 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just too gorgeous. #ddtbReshared post from +EarthJanuary Aurora Over NorwayWhat's that in the sky? 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