{"id":20162,"date":"2020-08-26T21:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=20162"},"modified":"2020-08-26T21:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T01:40:37","slug":"earthsky-5-myths-about-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/08\/earthsky-5-myths-about-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"EarthSky: 5 Myths about Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With all of the thunderstorm activity we have been having, many people have noted the high frequency of lightning. But there are a lot of misconceptions about lightning that may make people&#8217;s behavior in thunderstorms more hazardous. <em>EarthSky<\/em> presents five myths about lightning and why they are false <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/myths-about-lightning-debunked?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=b6f0c2e103-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-b6f0c2e103-393619445\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/lightning.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/lightning.jpg 384w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/lightning-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/lightning-110x138.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption>Source: Andreas Fink, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the thunderstorm activity we have been having, many people have noted the high frequency of lightning. But there are a lot of misconceptions about lightning that may make people&#8217;s behavior in thunderstorms more hazardous. EarthSky presents five myths about lightning and why they are false here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162","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=20162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20163,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162\/revisions\/20163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}