{"id":6054,"date":"2014-03-11T17:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/circumhelical-arc\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:39:05","slug":"circumhelical-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/circumhelical-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumhelical Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/circumhelical-arc-and-cactus.jpg' title='Circumhelical Arc'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/circumhelical-arc-and-cactus.jpg' alt='Circumhelical Arc' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went out onto the courtyard this afternoon to try and photograph <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/category\/science\/\">sunspots<\/a>but had no luck since there was a thin overcast layer of cirrus clouds. Damsel noticed that there was an arc around the sun so I positioned myself underneath the big saguaro out front and took this image of the phenomenon. <\/p>\n<p>The halo around the sun reminds me of some of the halos around the heads in medieval art works such as &#8220;Madonna y Bambino&#8221; and other halo-worthy holy figures that we saw in The Vatican, Rome and Florence, Italy a few years ago. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out onto the courtyard this afternoon to try and photograph sunspotsbut had no luck since there was a thin overcast layer of cirrus clouds.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,10,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-environment","category-photography","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}