{"id":4254,"date":"2013-08-18T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T23:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2013-08-19T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:58:01","slug":"halo-of-holy-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/18\/halo-of-holy-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo of Holy Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4212\" alt=\"20130819 013\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-013-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-013-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-013.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I noticed the sunlight refracting\/reflecting round my shadow giving me a halo. It is a phenomenon called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heiligenschein\" target=\"_blank\">Heiligenschein<\/a>\u00a0which is\u00a0German for Holy Light. \u00a0 It is most common on a\u00a0dewy, sunlit lawn and is caused by reflection and diffraction of light rays. \u00a0Apart from rainbows, I don&#8217;t think I have ever seen &#8211; or maybe noticed &#8211; refracted light before. Apparently it is not a common occurrence &#8211; you have to have strong low light and dew or raindrops on grass, or in this case, oats. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/weirdwords\/ww-hei1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">According to this site<\/a>, it was\u00a0first described in a book in 1834 and\u00a0is not much discussed apart from in books on optics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the sunlight refracting\/reflecting round my shadow giving me a halo. It is a phenomenon called Heiligenschein\u00a0which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-photography","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","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=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}