{"id":60545,"date":"2016-10-12T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60545"},"modified":"2016-10-09T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T20:11:30","slug":"big-and-blue-and-full-of-the-mind-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60545","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Big And Blue And Full Of The Mind Of God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quote is from &#8220;<em>Dakota: \u00a0A Spiritual Geography<\/em>&#8221; by Kathleen Norris. \u00a0It&#8217;s from a young Afro-American girl at a base school in Minot, ND, commenting about the sky in her adopted (likely temporary) home.<\/p>\n<p>As James Lileks once put it, the sky is the big attraction when you drive across North Dakota; it&#8217;s a &#8220;painting that changes every fifteen minutes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Eckl is a photographer from back there, and he&#8217;s done a wonderful set of time-lapses of the North Dakota twilight and night sky:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Sag72IJbm8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the things I miss about living up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quote is from &#8220;Dakota: \u00a0A Spiritual Geography&#8221; by Kathleen Norris. \u00a0It&#8217;s from a young Afro-American girl at a base school in Minot, ND, commenting about the sky in her adopted (likely temporary) home. As James Lileks once put it, the sky is the big attraction when you drive across North Dakota; it&#8217;s a &#8220;painting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60559,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545\/revisions\/60559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}