{"id":2228,"date":"2009-02-27T17:27:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T22:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2009-02-27T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T22:27:31","slug":"on-natures-rorschach-blot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"On Nature&#8217;s Rorschach Blot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of fast-moving storm clouds have moved over Baltimore in the past hour.<\/p>\n<p>These clouds are <i>dark<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I finished writing an article for work about <i>Halo Wars<\/i> and glanced out the window.  I thought the world was gloomy, but nothing could have prepared me for <i>this<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud looked like a dragon.<\/p>\n<p>The dragon had a head, complete with beak and crest, and there were wings, and it was flying toward the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>I know, clouds are like nature&#8217;s rorschach blot, but <i>still<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>You expect to see cows or Otto von Bismark.  You don&#8217;t expect to <i>ever<\/i> see a dragon fly overhead.<\/p>\n<p>At least he wasn&#8217;t spitting fire.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually, now that I think about it, not <i>that<\/i> gloomy.  Dark, yes.  But not gloomy.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, we may see snow tomorrow.  Blech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of fast-moving storm clouds have moved over Baltimore in the past hour. These clouds are dark. I finished writing an article for work about Halo Wars and glanced out the window. I thought the world was gloomy, but nothing could have prepared me for this. The cloud looked like a dragon. The dragon<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2228\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Nature&#8217;s Rorschach Blot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[612,673,363],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-clouds","tag-dragons","tag-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}