{"id":728,"date":"2012-10-04T22:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T02:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T02:50:24","slug":"red-skies-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Red Skies at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never having been to the northwest, much less its coast, one of the things that confounded me is how a bank of clouds and fog could move in and hover for hours on end.\u00a0 My limited beach time has been spent on the Atlantic or Gulf.\u00a0 Not only is fog out of character, but clouds roll in and out like an assembly line or conveyor belt.\u00a0 Not so on our visit to Oregon.\u00a0 Carl and I spent literally all afternoon (from lunch on) parked here hoping for beautiful light.\u00a0 There was no drama for hours and hours, then a thin layer of clouds appeared on the horizon as if a magenta filter had been placed in front of the sun.\u00a0 And it sat and sat and sat until sunset, probably lasting an hour and a half.\u00a0 The other phenomenon I noticed and that you&#8217;ll pickup in this image is how the light and color varied across the sky.\u00a0 Weather, fog and clouds pushing westward from the east attempted to clear the sky and bring &#8220;normal&#8221; light, while the magenta glow over the sea gave a colorful light show.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_729\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-729\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-729\" title=\"IMG_1990-91\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1990-91-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1990-91-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1990-91-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1990-91.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Cannon Beach, OR from Ecola Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never having been to the northwest, much less its coast, one of the things that confounded me is how a bank of clouds and fog could move in and hover for hours on end.\u00a0 My limited beach time has been spent on the Atlantic or Gulf.\u00a0 Not only is fog out of character, but clouds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,5,24,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}