{"id":11478,"date":"2016-12-08T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11478"},"modified":"2016-12-11T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:16:30","slug":"iridescent-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11478","title":{"rendered":"Iridescent Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11480\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161208_134217.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161208_134217-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Iridescent Cloud\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11480\" data-wp-pid=\"11480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161208_134217-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161208_134217-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161208_134217-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161208_134217-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161208_134217-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161208_134217.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iridescent Cloud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Where clouds are made up of especially tiny ice crystals or water droplets, they can cause light to be diffracted, creating this rainbow-like effect in the clouds. I saw one to the left of the sun as I was driving up interstate 95 from the capital beltway and then when I got onto Maryland 200 (the Inter-county Connector) I saw this on to the right of the sun. I was able to pull over and take a couple pictures of it before it faded away. I love clouds and take pictures of them fairly often but don&#8217;t figure most people will be as interested as I am, so only post them here when they are involved in sunsets or particularly unusual (like the Fallstreak hole I photographed <a href=\"?p=4764\" target=\"_20131123\">in November, 2013<\/a>). This isn&#8217;t nearly as rare as that, but I still like it when I see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where clouds are made up of especially tiny ice crystals or water droplets, they can cause light to be diffracted, creating this rainbow-like effect in the clouds. I saw one to the left of the sun as I was driving up interstate 95 from the capital beltway and then when I got onto Maryland 200 &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}