{"id":3973,"date":"2010-06-15T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2010-06-15T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:54:00","slug":"struck-as-if-by-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3973","title":{"rendered":"Struck, as if by Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An all-day telecon (east coast time) means a late lunch break. So, bypassing the news of <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/06\/tiny-desert-town-of-ocotillo-felt-brunt-of-quake.html\" target=\"_blank\">all the Southern California earthquakes<\/a>, here&#8217;s some news about a different phenomenon: lightning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Gulf of Mexico, the ship siphoning oil off the massive oil leak had to shut down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/articles\/2010\/06\/15\/bp_ship_fire_halts_oil_capture_in_gulf\/\" target=\"_blank\">because it was struck by lightning and caught fire<\/a>.\n<li>In Tennessee, a woman <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/ondeadline\/post\/2010\/06\/woman-killed-by-lightning-as-boyfriend-prepared-to-propose-\/1?loc=interstitialskip\" target=\"_blank\">was killed by lightning<\/a> just as her boyfriend was about to propose to her.\n<li>In Ohio, a 6-story status of Jesus with his arms raised in a &#8220;touchdown&#8221; pose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jtU2LmnsCiWr7nQtlMQF4X0fyj0QD9GBQLNO0\" target=\"_blank\">was struck by lightning and burned down to its steel frame<\/a>.<\/ul>\n<p>I will leave any interpretations to you, my dear readers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An all-day telecon (east coast time) means a late lunch break. So, bypassing the news of all the Southern California earthquakes, here&#8217;s some news about a different phenomenon: lightning: In the Gulf of Mexico, the ship siphoning oil off the massive oil leak had to shut down because it was struck by lightning and caught <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3973\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}