{"id":454,"date":"2008-08-08T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=454"},"modified":"2008-08-09T22:18:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T22:18:48","slug":"photo-of-the-day-8-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Photo-of-the-Day &#8211; 8 August 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.za.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spindrift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-455\" title=\"Spindrift turns golden in the setting sunlight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.za.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spindrift.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spindrift.jpg 800w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spindrift-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Returning from a walk during the brief hours of sunlight, we were surprised by a rapidly strengthening wind which soon had the spindrift blowing thick and fast.\u00c2\u00a0 Ambient temperatures were already in the -30&#8217;s before the wind picked up, and it had a chill which cut though clothing without mercy, leaving us no choice but to head back to base and take shelter.\u00c2\u00a0 As is the case so often in Antarctica, the inhospitability was paralleled in intensity by the beauty of the scene; spindrift cascading down the slope, filling the air with ice particles, each reflecting the golden light of the low sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning from a walk during the brief hours of sunlight, we were surprised by a rapidly strengthening wind which soon had the spindrift blowing thick and fast.\u00c2\u00a0 Ambient temperatures were already in the -30&#8217;s before the wind picked up, and it had a chill which cut though clothing without mercy, leaving us no choice but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-photo-of-the-day","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}