{"id":982,"date":"2008-08-16T15:14:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=982"},"modified":"2008-08-16T15:14:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:14:55","slug":"lightning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/08\/16\/lightning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when I see a flash of lightning, I instinctively count seconds until I hear the thunder to gauge distance. I&#8217;m always forgetting whether it&#8217;s 1 second = 1 mile, or 5 seconds = 1 mile. (It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndt-ed.org\/EducationResources\/HighSchool\/Sound\/speedinair.htm\">5 seconds per mile<\/a>. Approximately.)<\/p>\n<p>But what about when you see the flash and don&#8217;t even get the first syllable of, &#8220;One one-thousand,&#8221; out before shouting an expletive in surprise? Sort of a, &#8220;Wah&mdash;holy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My house is not on fire. The trees keep me from seeing my neighbor&#8217;s home, so I&#8217;m not so sure about theirs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when I see a flash of lightning, I instinctively count seconds until I hear the thunder to gauge distance. I&#8217;m always forgetting whether it&#8217;s 1 second = 1 mile, or 5 seconds = 1 mile. (It&#8217;s 5 seconds per &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/08\/16\/lightning-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}