Last night at 2:14am, this was the view from a field in Blackfoot Recreation Area. It was absolutely incredible to watch the northern lights swirl across the sky – mostly green but tinged with red. <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n
I’ve rarely seen them brighter than this. The only time I remember was when I was 7 years old, at the house in the country where I grew up. I remember my whole family standing out in the back yard, staring straight up as northern lights of all different colors cut through the black sky above us. And I remember hearing a whooshing sound as they moved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night at 2:14am, this was the view from a field in Blackfoot Recreation Area. It was absolutely incredible to watch the northern lights swirl across the sky – mostly green but tinged with red. I’ve rarely seen them brighter than this. The only time I remember was when I was 7 years old, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[732,741,87],"tags":[2069,2060,2066,2064,2059,2063,105,2071,2067,862,812,2062,2068,2061,1046,2070,2065],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-night-photography","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-aurora","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-back-yard","tag-black-sky","tag-blackfoot-recreation-area","tag-different-colors","tag-field","tag-green","tag-lights","tag-night","tag-night-sky","tag-northern-lights","tag-outdoor","tag-recreation-area","tag-red","tag-sky","tag-whooshing-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}