{"id":264,"date":"2003-10-24T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-25T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/10\/24\/glendale-california-46\/"},"modified":"2003-10-24T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-25T05:50:00","slug":"glendale-california-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/10\/24\/glendale-california-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Glendale, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the weather in Los Angeles is confused and wrong it&#8217;s been nearly ninety degrees outside even though it&#8217;s almost November.  As a result there are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/West\/10\/24\/california.wildfire\/index.html\">bunch of fires<\/a> burning in the hills around the city, so a thin layer of smoke is drifting over everything.  That in and of itself isn&#8217;t unusual (at least not for LA &#8212; anywhere else when the city is burning down it&#8217;s cause for panic) but what is strange is that the sun shining through the smoke this morning turned a weird reddish-purple color, and all around it the sky turned a blood red color.  I can only imagine what people thousands of years ago would have done after seeing a sight like that &#8212; when I first saw the sky my immediate thought was that we needed to start sacrificing goats and virgins left and right.  It&#8217;s no wonder that this is the city that brought us Armageddon, Volcano, and The Core.<\/p>\n<p>Unrelated, but just for fun <a href=\"http:\/\/jasons.blogspot.com\/2003_10_01_jasons_archive.html#106701742570216304\">guess which pumpkin<\/a> was carved by the art school graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the weather in Los Angeles is confused and wrong it&#8217;s been nearly ninety degrees outside even though it&#8217;s almost November. As a result there are a bunch of fires burning in the hills around the city, so a thin layer of smoke is drifting over everything. That in and of itself isn&#8217;t unusual (at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/10\/24\/glendale-california-46\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glendale, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}