{"id":1500,"date":"2009-03-22T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2018-11-09T02:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:35:02","slug":"on-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/on-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"On clouds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090213103600_a-valentine-sky.jpg\" alt=\"20090213103600_a-valentine-sky.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090311183024_cloud-cumulus.jpg\" alt=\"20090311183024_cloud-cumulus.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060219191428_cuoredinuvoleilluminato.jpg\" alt=\"20060219191428_cuoredinuvoleilluminato.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Somerton, U.K.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always loved clouds\u2014while cloudless skies tend to leave me nonplussed. So it was with considerable pleasure that I stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudappreciationsociety.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Cloud Appreciation Society<\/a> today. View a gallery of nearly 5000 cloud images <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudappreciationsociety.org\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Following is the Society\u2019s manifesto\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>~~~~~<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">We think that they are Nature\u2019s poetry,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">and the most egalitarian of her displays, since<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">everyone can have a fantastic view of them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">We pledge to fight \u2018blue-sky thinking\u2019 wherever we find it.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Life would be dull if we had to look up at<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">cloudless monotony day after day.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">atmosphere\u2019s moods, and can be read like those of<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">a person\u2019s countenance.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">on psychoanalysis bills.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">And so we say to all who\u2019ll listen:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">and live life with your head in the clouds!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somerton, U.K. I\u2019ve always loved clouds\u2014while cloudless skies tend to leave me nonplussed. So it was with considerable pleasure that I stumbled across The Cloud Appreciation Society today. View a gallery of nearly 5000 cloud images here. Following is the Society\u2019s manifesto\u2026 ~~~~~ WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8,21,15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16696,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/16696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}