{"id":7363,"date":"2013-03-29T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2013-03-29T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:14:59","slug":"sun-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7363","title":{"rendered":"Sun dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A sun dog (a parhelion) is so named because the colourful spot of light follows its master, the Sun, around the sky. Well, it follows the Sun if the cloud, in which the sun dog forms, persists. In this case, the drifting cirrus was in the proper position for maybe five minutes and then the show was over. These brightly coloured spots of light are explained by the minimum angle of deviation of sunlight refracted through the 60\u00b0 prism faces of hexagonal ice crystals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7364\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sundog130327s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A sun dog (a parhelion) is so named because the colourful spot of light follows its master, the Sun, around the sky. Well, it follows the Sun if the cloud, in which the sun dog forms, persists. In this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363","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=7363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}