{"id":561,"date":"2007-09-06T21:41:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T12:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-09-06\/561"},"modified":"2007-09-06T21:41:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T12:41:21","slug":"amazing-rainbow-in-kyoto-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-09-06\/561","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Rainbow in Kyoto Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nAnthony, Mommy, and Daddy<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Half an hour after the sun went behind the mountains, and 10 minutes\nafter<\/i> the official sunset when it was already fairly dark, I saw the<\/span>\nmost amazing, deeply rich maroon\/crimson\/pink rainbow<\/b> you could\nimagine.<\/p>\n\n

At first I caught only the glimpse of one edge of it... it was\nbrilliant<\/i>, all the more so because of the aforementioned darkness,\nand perhaps also because the sunlight creating it must have been the\ndeepest of the reds of sunset (seeing how the sun had set 10 minutes prior,\nit was made with the last rays still hitting misting rain from the upper\nclouds). It was during<\/span> that golden moment you might see a few<\/span> times a year<\/span>\nwhen every wisp of cloud is brilliantly pink to begin with, set against a\nsubdued<\/span> darkening sky.<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, suffice to say that I'd never seen anything like it, and it\ninspired awe. And that was<\/span> just one edge of it. To see more<\/span>, we had to go\nout onto the balcony.<\/p>\n\n

I rushed Anthony out onto the balcony, then rushed myself into my room\nto grab my camera. And my monopod<\/a>, which took an agonizing 30 seconds to find. Oh,\ndrat, the camera doesn't have a memory<\/span> card, so I quickly<\/span> put one in. Geez,\nyou know, it's really too dark for the monopod, I may as<\/span> well just use my\nnew tripod<\/a>, but the @*#&!($&)%!<\/b> protective cover\nwon't come off in the split second I want<\/span> it to, and I have<\/span> to wrestle with\nit for five seconds. Finally, I rush<\/b> out onto the balcony to see the\nfinal glimmers of the rainbow and rich clouds fading away to a bleak<\/span>\nnothingness. Sigh.<\/p>\n\n

(UPDATE: I missed it, but a friend<\/span> did not<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n

I was depressed both about missing it, and about not getting a picture<\/span>\nof it. Anthony sensed this, and said that he'd draw a picture<\/span> of it for me\nthat would make me happy and that I could<\/span> “keep with me until I die,<\/span>” which\nis what's featured above. He took some<\/span> poetic license in that he's missing\nthe reds and pinks that were predominate, it was dark but there weren't yet\nstars, and Mommy wasn't there. (Mommy was at an appointment at the time,\nand the taxi driver on the way home told her about it, and about how\neveryone was taking pictures of it. Everyone but me, that is.)<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, Anthony's drawing did make me happier.<\/p>\n\n

Mommy had recently taught him how to make stars with two triangles. I think<\/span> the black thing in the upper-right is a failed<\/span> attempt, with two\ntriangles that aren't quite arranged as effectively as he'd hoped. By the one<\/span> in the upper-left, he seems to have gotten the hang of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Half an hour after the sun went behind the mountains, and 10 minutes after the official sunset when it was already fairly dark, I saw the most amazing, deeply rich maroon\/crimson\/pink rainbow<\/b> you could imagine.<\/p>

At first I caught only the glimpse of one edge of it... it was brilliant, all the more so because of the aforementioned darkness, and perhaps also because the sunlight creating it must have been the deepest of the reds of sunset (seeing how the sun had set 10 minutes prior, it was made with the last rays still hitting misting rain from the upper [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}