{"id":577,"date":"2013-04-03T18:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2013-04-03T18:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:29:55","slug":"mount-jefferson-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Mount Jefferson erupts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1060271.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-578\" title=\"P1060271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1060271-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1060271-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1060271.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mount Jefferson is a volcano in the Cascades, the second highest mountain in Oregon.\u00a0 It last erupted about 40,000 years ago and is thought to be extinct.\u00a0 What then was going on this morning?<\/p>\n<p>In a semi-annual phenomenon of geometry, the sun rose directly behind Mount Jefferson as viewed from the summit of Marys Peak.\u00a0 The &#8220;obstacle&#8221; delayed the rise by three minutes, with the first rays appearing at 6:52 am instead of the expected 6:49.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1060275.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-579\" title=\"P1060275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1060275-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1060275-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1060275.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spring has come to the mountain since I was last there 12 days ago in a frigid wind with fresh snow on the ground.\u00a0 The road, impassable since mid December, is now bare pavement all the way to the summit parking lot.\u00a0 Enough snow lingers in the meadows for a hardcore skier to get in some gliding, but the ground is more than half bare even on top.\u00a0 This makes it easier &#8211; a two-hour sunrise endeavor instead of four hours &#8211; but at the same time a bit less special and remote.\u00a0 No less beautiful though.\u00a0 Marys Peak is always beautiful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Jefferson is a volcano in the Cascades, the second highest mountain in Oregon.\u00a0 It last erupted about 40,000 years ago and is thought to be extinct.\u00a0 What then was going on this morning? In a semi-annual phenomenon of geometry, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=577\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}