{"id":380,"date":"2008-06-13T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=380"},"modified":"2008-07-26T22:42:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T22:42:48","slug":"photo-of-the-day-13-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Photo-of-the-Day &#8211; 13 June 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had amazingly lovely weather today &#8211; only -9\u00c2\u00b0C and not a breath of wind.\u00c2\u00a0 Truly, compared to the recent -20-something with heavy winds we&#8217;ve been having, it felt balmy.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite the darkness, Sanki and I decided to get out and have some exercise.\u00c2\u00a0 Taking cross-country ski&#8217;s, we went over to the winter depot to check on the containers and caboose stored there.\u00c2\u00a0 It was interesting skiing in the darkness, with only a slight glow on the northern horizon despite being around midday, but the exercise was good and the skis treated us well.\u00c2\u00a0 With almost no visual references and no contrast, we really sensed every ripple in the snow and ice through our skis as we glided along.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/outskiing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-381\" title=\"Out skiing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/outskiing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/outskiing.jpg 533w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/outskiing-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had amazingly lovely weather today &#8211; only -9\u00c2\u00b0C and not a breath of wind.\u00c2\u00a0 Truly, compared to the recent -20-something with heavy winds we&#8217;ve been having, it felt balmy.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite the darkness, Sanki and I decided to get out and have some exercise.\u00c2\u00a0 Taking cross-country ski&#8217;s, we went over to the winter depot to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-photo-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}