{"id":14853,"date":"2018-06-27T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14853"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:58:03","slug":"lightning-strike-kills-a-dozen-cows-sparks-strange-facebook-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/06\/lightning-strike-kills-a-dozen-cows-sparks-strange-facebook-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lightning Strike Kills a Dozen Cows, Sparks Strange Facebook Comments&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the tragedies of lightning storms is that sometimes when lightning hits a tree, injury or death can occur to anything below that tree, including cattle that have taken shelter from the storm. A recent story about one such event prompted this article from <em>Drovers Newsletter<\/em> about the odd comments received on social media from people who don&#8217;t understand how cattle are raised. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drovers.com\/article\/lightning-strike-kills-dozen-cows-sparks-strange-facebook-comments?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RRd01tUXpaVEE0WkdReSIsInQiOiJjdUpvV05LRXZsc3JvUDE4aWFqU1lHNG5SRVFQdDVlQUdFVVQ3RjBZTENuejJJOU1Ca2RhVW1HNXVzY3kyb1d4eE1raUU5K1NiSE5ERGFWSk5OYUYzSThoZ1BTMkdza1V2WTk3QWdwM2VreVwvSkpoMW1CWWJ1NVNJNVdFM1R6YlgifQ%3D%3D\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2316\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning_tree_-_geograph_org_uk_-_335313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2316\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning_tree_-_geograph_org_uk_-_335313-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning_tree_-_geograph_org_uk_-_335313-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning_tree_-_geograph_org_uk_-_335313-104x138.jpg 104w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning_tree_-_geograph_org_uk_-_335313.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Penny Mayes, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the tragedies of lightning storms is that sometimes when lightning hits a tree, injury or death can occur to anything below that tree, including cattle that have taken shelter from the storm. A recent story about one such event prompted this article from Drovers Newsletter about the odd comments received on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14854,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions\/14854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}