{"id":698,"date":"2008-08-23T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:19:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:19:02","slug":"skywatch-friday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/seaofgrass.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237521876086211922\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/seaofgrass-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>You have to know how to look at this country. You have to slow down. It isn&#8217;t pretty, but it&#8217;s beautiful.<\/em><br \/>&#8211;Kent Haruf in <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/West-of-Last-Chance\/Peter-Brown\/e\/9780393065725\/?itm=1\"><em>West of Last Chance<\/em> <\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">In the weeks before I went to North Dakota in June, I spoke to a couple people out there and the weather always came up in conversation, mainly the hope for rain to &#8220;green things up some.&#8221; Green it was, but every so often we&#8217;d come across a view like this of a pale ocean of prairie grass laid out to the horizon. More often than not there weren&#8217;t any trees to mark the edge of vision, the sky and clouds a kaleidoscope of moods, the play of sunlight on the land the only thing to distinguish one moment from the next.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a> for more Skywatch posts.<\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to know how to look at this country. You have to slow down. It isn&#8217;t pretty, but it&#8217;s beautiful.&#8211;Kent Haruf in West of Last Chance In the weeks before I went to North Dakota in June, I spoke to a couple people out there and the weather always came up in conversation, mainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skywatch Friday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,15,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}