{"id":63860,"date":"2017-02-23T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=63860"},"modified":"2017-02-23T00:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:09:18","slug":"lava-in-yosemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/63860","title":{"rendered":"Lava in Yosemite??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhile I&#8217;ve never heard of an active volcano in Yosemite National Park, for a few days each February, you can catch a glimpse of a lava-like flow at Yosemite&#8217;s Horsetail Fall.<\/p>\n<p>Horsetail Fall is spectacular enough on most winter or early spring days, when the seasonal waterfall makes a more than 2,000-foot drop down the east side of El Capitan. But on certain days in mid-February, the sun sets at a particular angle that illuminates the waterfall for a few minutes in stunning reds, oranges, and yellows, and turning it into something called a &#8220;firefall,&#8221; when you&#8217;d swear you were witnessing a river of hot lava flowing down the sheer cliff face. Hundreds of visitors come each year with cameras in hand, hoping to catch the perfect shot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63861\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63861\" class=\"wp-image-63861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8517952095_0146786f66_z.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"525\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-63861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Steve Corey via Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago while looking out my office window, I noticed a similar phenomenon when a patch of sunlight hit a bend in the lane to my farm. I fantasized that if I were to stand in that gorgeous patch of glowing light, I would somehow be transported to other-worldly realms.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve never heard of an active volcano in Yosemite National Park, for a few days each February, you can catch a glimpse of a lava-like flow at Yosemite&#8217;s Horsetail Fall. Horsetail Fall is spectacular enough on most winter or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/63860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/63860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}