{"id":24610,"date":"2016-02-12T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/?p=24610"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:00:43","slug":"photo-friday-big-dipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/2016\/02\/12\/photo-friday-big-dipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Big Dipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24611\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo\/big-dipper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/112A7609-big-dipper-over-the-missiouri.jpg\" alt=\"On a clear night at Niobrara State Park the stars shone brightly above the Missouri River. In the reflection of the river the Big Dipper can be clearly seen.\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24611\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Dipper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I&#8217;m always in awe of nature, I love it when it surprises me.  Last November on a clear night at Niobrara State Park, I situated myself on the bank of the Missouri River.  As night fell, thousands of stars appeared above my head.  However, in the water I noticed something special, the stars of the Big Dipper constellation (Ursa Major) were clearly visibly reflected.  While other stars were visible, these stars appeared particularly bright.  I particularly enjoyed the solitude on this evening and the scene that nature presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m always in awe of nature, I love it when it surprises me. Last November on a clear night at Niobrara State Park, I situated myself on the bank of the Missouri River. As night fell, thousands of stars appeared above my head. However, in the water I noticed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,119,130,23,29,140,144,64],"tags":[161,166],"class_list":["post-24610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall","category-landscape","category-nature","category-niobrara-state-park","category-photo-friday","category-sky","category-stars","category-water","tag-landscape","tag-nature","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}