{"id":2366,"date":"2013-05-16T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2013-05-17T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T01:18:02","slug":"a-powerful-portent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/a-powerful-portent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Powerful Portent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2364 alignright\" alt=\"160513 002\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-002-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-002-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-002.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The red sky was a clear warning for the thunderstorms ahead. \u00a0I worked quickly through the morning chores and exactly one hour after this photo was taken, the first drops of rain fell, just as I brought firewood in from the store. \u00a0<a title=\"Passive Solar Heating\" href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/passive-solar-heating\/\">No Passive Solar heating<\/a> free from the sun today, so log fire heating free from the forest was the solution. \u00a0 \u00a0The forecast was for 10-20mm and we ended up with 36mm with a couple of heavy downpours when both times we got over 5mm in 5 minutes &#8211; the heaviest fall came at 5pm when I was feeding the horses. \u00a0 This was not quite as impressive as the rain in Busselton, 20km north-east, where they got over 25mm in that hour for daily total of 49mm. \u00a0At times the noise was deafening as the rain crashed on the tin roof backed by thunder and lightning less than 2km away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2365 alignright\" alt=\"160513 028\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-028-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-028-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-028.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red sky was a clear warning for the thunderstorms ahead. \u00a0I worked quickly through the morning chores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/160513-028.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}