{"id":1865,"date":"2006-02-22T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1865.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T21:13:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T20:13:48","slug":"hail-hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2006\/02\/22\/hail-hail\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail, Hail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while I was walking in the Botanics, I came under a sudden assault of hail.  I had to shelter under an umbrella under a tree &#8211; one layer of protection was not enough.<\/p>\n<p>After the white stuff stopped falling, it seemed to vanish.  Only a few balls were left to convince me that it wasn&#8217;t a dream.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/103159731\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/36\/103159731_f042efd901_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00719\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 21 February 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The hailstones didn&#8217;t last, but the raindrops were beautiful as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/103160057\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/25\/103160057_083e339585_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00724\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 21 February 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This shot reminds me of one of my favourite poems, <a href=\"http:\/\/amb.nbu.bg\/british\/6\/larkin\/noroad.htm\">No Road<\/a> by Philip Larkin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/103160224\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/26\/103160224_32f92a5488_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00727\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 21 February 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a few other photos building up that didn&#8217;t really deserve their own entries.  Of possible interest:<\/p>\n<p>The sacred cow is coming home to roost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/102284687\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/40\/102284687_be5d4ed740_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Dsc00716\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 20 February 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Plant in the car park at the Cuddy Brae.  Very red!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/101598405\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/32\/101598405_436c4d6cca_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00711\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 19 February 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bus stop hardware&#8230;one of those tiny details of life that looks so good up close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/100789267\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/36\/100789267_77679c6908_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00641\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 19 February 2006<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while I was walking in the Botanics, I came under a sudden assault of hail. I had to shelter under an umbrella under a tree &#8211; one layer of protection was not enough. After the white stuff stopped falling, it seemed to vanish. Only a few balls were left to convince me that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2006\/02\/22\/hail-hail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hail, Hail!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,134],"tags":[1665,1690,1701,1662,1656,1654],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edinburgh_a_love_letter","category-photography","tag-botanics","tag-conifers","tag-hail","tag-ironmongery","tag-leaves","tag-macro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}