{"id":11234,"date":"2013-06-24T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T01:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2013-06-24T19:04:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T01:04:02","slug":"weather-webcam-captures-lightning-bolt-striking-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/weather-webcam-captures-lightning-bolt-striking-nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather webcam captures lightning bolt striking nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the sun went down yesterday a thunderstorm moved over the Thornton area. \u00a0It provided some brief, heavy rain which was very welcome given our drought stricken landscape. \u00a0Accompanying the moisture was a good bit of lightning which lit up the post-sunset sky.<\/p>\n<p>Our west facing webcam captured one bolt as it struck turning night into day for a brief instant.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-3GfDeVkwlX8\/UcjrMQscYYI\/AAAAAAAAAW0\/j_IfOswZxH8\/s800\/130623210400-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A thunderstorm on June 23, 2013 delivered rain and a good bit of lightning.  ThorntonWeather.com's west facing camera happened to capture one bolt as it struck.\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-3GfDeVkwlX8\/UcjrMQscYYI\/AAAAAAAAAW0\/j_IfOswZxH8\/s560\/130623210400-2.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A thunderstorm on June 23, 2013 delivered rain and a good bit of lightning. ThorntonWeather.com&#8217;s west facing camera happened to capture one bolt as it struck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the sun went down yesterday a thunderstorm moved over the Thornton area. \u00a0It provided some brief, heavy rain which was very welcome given our drought stricken landscape. \u00a0Accompanying the moisture was a good bit of lightning which lit up the post-sunset sky. Our west facing webcam captured one bolt as it struck turning night &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/weather-webcam-captures-lightning-bolt-striking-nearby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather webcam captures lightning bolt striking nearby<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11237,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}