{"id":15402,"date":"2018-08-23T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T01:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2018-08-23T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T01:16:16","slug":"lightning-has-shortened-the-washington-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/08\/lightning-has-shortened-the-washington-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning has shortened the Washington Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s weather oddity comes from Atlas <em>Obscura<\/em>, who noted in an article this week that the height of the Washington Monument was almost half an inch lower than originally built due to repeated lightning strikes on the top, melting the metal cap. You can read more about this fascinating story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/washington-monument-lightning-rod\">https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/washington-monument-lightning-rod<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15403\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/cherry-blossom-lightning-washington-monument.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15403\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/cherry-blossom-lightning-washington-monument-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/cherry-blossom-lightning-washington-monument-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/cherry-blossom-lightning-washington-monument-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/cherry-blossom-lightning-washington-monument.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: ForestWander Nature Photography via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s weather oddity comes from Atlas Obscura, who noted in an article this week that the height of the Washington Monument was almost half an inch lower than originally built due to repeated lightning strikes on the top, melting the metal cap. You can read more about this fascinating story at\u00a0https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/washington-monument-lightning-rod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":15403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402","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=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15404,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions\/15404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}