{"id":8484,"date":"2011-09-11T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T14:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8484"},"modified":"2017-11-12T03:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T22:10:34","slug":"never-boring-aurora-borealis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/never-boring-aurora-borealis\/","title":{"rendered":"Never boring&#8230; Aurora Borealis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8485\" title=\"Copyright - \u00c2\u00a9  Mike Grandmaison\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/NorthernLights_LakeWinnipeg_Grandmmaison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"314\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, Ev and I enjoyed a long evening of fire-pit fellowship with her daughter Jennifer and son-in-law Derek\u2026 and in spite of a shockingly bright (almost full-moon) sky, watching shooting stars and dancing Aurora Borealis. Ev&#8217;s grandsons Sam and Jayden meanwhile spent hours playing moonlight soccer, and gleefully staged stealth-attacks on the fireside grown-ups (the hundreds of too-bitter-to-eat pears falling from her tree offered an unlimited supply of ammo).<\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst to me, my outstanding photographer friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?s=grandmaison&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Grandmaison<\/a> was at the same time capturing images of the Northern Lights at Matlock, just a few clicks south along the lake\u2026 shown above is one of the images he&#8217;s just shared with me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Our First Nation peoples thought of <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aurora_(astronomy)\" target=\"_blank\">Aurora Borealis<\/a> as a manifestation of deceased ancestors; ancient Norsemen envisioned warlike virgins on horses armed with helmets, swords, and spears; and though I know the phenomena is caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere, I like to think of the Northern Lights as waves of experiential unction sent to us as a gift of metaphysical affirmation.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba On Saturday night, Ev and I enjoyed a long evening of fire-pit fellowship with her daughter Jennifer and son-in-law Derek\u2026 and in spite of a shockingly bright (almost full-moon) sky, watching shooting stars and dancing Aurora Borealis. Ev&#8217;s grandsons Sam and Jayden meanwhile spent hours playing moonlight soccer, and gleefully staged stealth-attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484"}],"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=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15494,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions\/15494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}