{"id":6809,"date":"2016-04-21T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2016-04-21T18:36:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:36:42","slug":"the-most-terrifying-part-about-getting-struck-by-lightning-is-what-happens-to-you-afterwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/the-most-terrifying-part-about-getting-struck-by-lightning-is-what-happens-to-you-afterwards\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The most terrifying part about getting struck by lightning is what happens to you afterwards&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my posting from yesterday on lightning, here&#8217;s an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/most-terrifying-part-getting-struck-202700300.html\">story<\/a> from <em>Yahoo Finance<\/em> on what happens after you get hit by lightning. \u00a0After reading it, I think you&#8217;ll agree that it is MUCH BETTER not to get hit in the first place. \u00a0Note: some of the descriptions and photos in the story are not for the squeamish, so read with caution.<\/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=\"Source: David Selby\/Commons Wikimedia\" 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<figure id=\"attachment_2568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2568\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/lightning-by-work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2568\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/lightning-by-work.jpg\" alt=\"Source: National Weather Service\" width=\"299\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/lightning-by-work.jpg 280w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/lightning-by-work-183x138.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Weather Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my posting from yesterday on lightning, here&#8217;s an interesting story from Yahoo Finance on what happens after you get hit by lightning. \u00a0After reading it, I think you&#8217;ll agree that it is MUCH BETTER not to get hit in the first place. \u00a0Note: some of the descriptions and photos in the story [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","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=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/6818"}],"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=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}