{"id":2132,"date":"2010-10-21T13:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T03:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T02:55:09","slug":"typhoon-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the sky over Garapan filled with dusty purple clouds that washed the streets with a paintbox hue unlike anything I&#8217;ve ever seen. It was as if the air itself had grabbed hold of one end of the spectrum and squeezed out this royal shade. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_4673.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_4673\" width=\"440\" height=\"587\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_4673.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_4673-329x440.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>backstage at a sunset<\/h1>\n<p>This strange sky is thanks to a very large weather system, Typhoon Juan (A.K.A. Typhoon Megi). It passed us by but rolled right over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanews.tv\/story\/203926\/report-aquino-arrives-in-isabela-to-inspect-juan-hit-areas\">the Philippines<\/a> and now it&#8217;s grinding toward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanews.tv\/story\/203863\/southern-china-braces-for-typhoon-juan\">Southern China<\/a>. Thankfully here on Saipan we saw only a little eddy thrown off by the main storm. We had dark skies yesterday, some rain, a little thunder and lightning, and these magical purple clouds.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vVjbSWMAYd4?hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vVjbSWMAYd4?hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the sky over Garapan filled with dusty purple clouds that washed the streets with a paintbox hue unlike anything I&#8217;ve ever seen. It was as if the air itself had grabbed hold of one end of the spectrum and squeezed out this royal shade. backstage at a sunset This strange sky is thanks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[169,244,222,243],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-journal","category-video","tag-saipan","tag-sky","tag-sunset","tag-typhoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}