{"id":14336,"date":"2015-07-20T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14336"},"modified":"2015-07-29T21:32:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T04:32:34","slug":"plume-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14336","title":{"rendered":"Plume from afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The picture, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14331\">posted on Saturday<\/a> of a (controlled) burn around the Sitkum Creek fire, was dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Thorburn has sent me a picture that was taken about the same time and puts the matter in perspective. His view is from the summit of Mt. Asgard in the Valhallas. The smoke from the Sitkum fire appears beyond the top of Mt Dag (top left). From this distance of about forty kilometres, the world looks pristine and the plume tiny.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14337\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/asgard159718sDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Doug Thorburn&#8217;s picture is used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The picture, posted on Saturday of a (controlled) burn around the Sitkum Creek fire, was dramatic. Doug Thorburn has sent me a picture that was taken about the same time and puts the matter in perspective. His view is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14459,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions\/14459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}