{"id":11322,"date":"2021-04-15T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11322"},"modified":"2021-05-07T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T21:32:40","slug":"mom-are-we-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/15\/mom-are-we-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMom, are we OK?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2021\/04\/15\/how-a-burst-of-light-in-the-sky-illuminated-something-primal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from DNYUZ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How a Burst of Light in the Sky Illuminated Something Primal<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Brooke Jarvis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/How-a-Burst-of-Light-in-the-Sky-Illuminated-Something-750x375.jpg\" alt=\"How a Burst of Light in the Sky Illuminated Something Primal\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At around 9 o\u2019clock on the night of March 25, the sky above my house in Seattle lit up with an astonishing display. I know this not because I happened to see it \u2014 I was inside, as I am too often, working at my computer \u2014 but because my Twitter feed was suddenly full of different versions of the same, uncanny video. The earliest clips captured what looked like a single streak of light, fracturing outward into a shimmering cascade. What came next looked like the world\u2019s largest and longest-lasting firework, or a huge shower of comets hitting all at once, or a waterfall of light falling sideways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was golden, spectacular, alarming, otherworldly, indecipherable, unknown. While the cameras rolled, I could hear the voices of the people pointing them upward. Again and again, in tones ranging from rapturous to fearful (and using a variety of expletives, depending on the personality of the videographer), they looked to the sky and asked, \u201cWhat is that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2021\/04\/15\/how-a-burst-of-light-in-the-sky-illuminated-something-primal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at DNYUZ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DNYUZ How a Burst of Light in the Sky Illuminated Something Primal by Brooke Jarvis At around 9 o\u2019clock on the night of March 25, the sky above my house in Seattle lit up with an astonishing display. I know this not because I happened to see it \u2014 I was inside, as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}