{"id":11234,"date":"2017-05-26T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2017-05-26T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:48:07","slug":"what-its-like-to-be-hit-by-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/what-its-like-to-be-hit-by-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What it&#8217;s like to be hit by lightning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Digg.com<\/em> has an interesting (if somewhat intense) article about what it is like to be hit by a stroke of lightning. Surprisingly, nine out of ten people survive a lightning stroke, but the lasting physical changes can be unnerving or downright dangerous. You can read it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digg.com\/2017\/what-its-like-struck-by-lightning?utm_source=atlasobscura\">https:\/\/digg.com\/2017\/what-its-like-struck-by-lightning?utm_source=atlasobscura<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3029\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3029\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1-237x138.jpg 237w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: David Selby\/Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digg.com has an interesting (if somewhat intense) article about what it is like to be hit by a stroke of lightning. Surprisingly, nine out of ten people survive a lightning stroke, but the lasting physical changes can be unnerving or downright dangerous. You can read it at\u00a0https:\/\/digg.com\/2017\/what-its-like-struck-by-lightning?utm_source=atlasobscura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11235,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}