{"id":965,"date":"2003-03-01T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T19:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/01\/snowflake-pictures\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:43:31","slug":"snowflake-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/01\/snowflake-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowflake pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/\" title=\"Snow Crystals\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A single snowflake\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/03\/graphics\/snowflake.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"159\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gorgeous pictures of snowflakes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/\" title=\"Snow Crystals\">this site<\/a>, along with more information than I ever thought there would be about the little buggers.<\/p>\n<p>My parents have often teased me about how long it would take me to walk the three blocks to school when I was a kid, usually assuming that I had to examine every snowflake I saw to see if they were <em>really<\/em> all different. In normal Alaskan winters, of course, there are a <em>lot<\/em> of snowflakes. Even in only three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>That said, though, I never got quite this into examining snow. Probably because the downside to examining snowflakes was being out in the cold, and at ten years old, I was a bit short of the capital it would take to build my own laboratory for experiments like this. Bummer!<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/02\/28\/1326230&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=134\" title=\"\/.: Snowflake photos\">\/.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents have often teased me about how long it would take me to walk the three blocks to school when I was a kid, usually assuming that I had to examine every snowflake I saw to see if they were really all different. In normal Alaskan winters, of course, there are a lot of snowflakes. Even in only three blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}