{"id":24987,"date":"2017-09-22T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/?p=24987"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:00:36","slug":"photo-friday-sunrise-on-the-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/2017\/09\/22\/photo-friday-sunrise-on-the-last-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Sunrise on the Last Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24988\" style=\"width: 1320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo\/the-sunrise-of-the-last-day\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/luna.journeyoflight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/112A7875-sunrise-tundra-last-day-redo-crop-forprint-and-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"Just when I thought lingering storm clouds would obscure the sun, it broke through and gave me a breathtaking sunrise. These are the days that I love being a photographer, but even more importantly, I love being in nature.\" width=\"1320\" height=\"660\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24988\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/112A7875-sunrise-tundra-last-day-redo-crop-forprint-and-web-1.jpg 1320w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/112A7875-sunrise-tundra-last-day-redo-crop-forprint-and-web-1-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/112A7875-sunrise-tundra-last-day-redo-crop-forprint-and-web-1-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/112A7875-sunrise-tundra-last-day-redo-crop-forprint-and-web-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/112A7875-sunrise-tundra-last-day-redo-crop-forprint-and-web-1-700x350.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sunrise of the Last Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the last day of a trip to Colorado, I climbed to the top of the alpine tundra to await the sunrise.  On the eastern horizon the clouds obscured the light and my hope to see the sun dwindled.  I patiently waited and as I was about to pack up I was rewarded as the sun briefly broke through illuminating the scene before me.  At that moment I was reminded not only of why I wanted to be a photographer but of the endless beauty of nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of a trip to Colorado, I climbed to the top of the alpine tundra to await the sunrise. On the eastern horizon the clouds obscured the light and my hope to see the sun dwindled. I patiently waited and as I was about to pack up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,128,130,29,30,36,48,50],"tags":[161,166],"class_list":["post-24987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscape","category-mountains","category-nature","category-photo-friday","category-photograph","category-rocky-mountain-national-park-colorado","category-summer","category-sunrise","tag-landscape","tag-nature","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987"}],"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=24987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}