{"id":2818,"date":"2011-05-23T20:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2011-05-23T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:56:05","slug":"weathering-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/weathering-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Weathering Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kcclouds.jpg\" alt=\"Clouds\" title=\"Clouds\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kcclouds.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kcclouds-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spent last Saturday night tracking a couple different nasty storm cells and watching wall clouds and even a tornado being broadcast live on the news as I hunkered down at a graduation party while the weather rode it&#8217;s course through the area. Sunday presented itself as lovely and sunny and I spent most of the afternoon outdoors&#8230; which is why the tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, early Sunday evening was such a big surprise to me. I could have never imagined the kind of destruction that I have been seeing in the photos following that storm.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to join in relief efforts, visit this Facebook page for lots of information and suggestions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joplinmo\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joplinmo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several ways to donate.  United Way is very simple to do with Paypal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwheartmo.org\/\">http:\/\/www.uwheartmo.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent last Saturday night tracking a couple different nasty storm cells and watching wall clouds and even a tornado being broadcast live on the news as I hunkered down at a graduation party while the weather rode it&#8217;s course through the area. Sunday presented itself as lovely and sunny and I spent most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}