{"id":4532,"date":"2015-01-05T20:05:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2015-02-24T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:00:35","slug":"the-persistence-of-contrails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=4532","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence of Contrails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4533\" href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4533\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4533\" title=\"15-01-05\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-01-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-01-05.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-01-05-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-01-05-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday the sky was filled with a selection of contrails; so many that they threw shadows on each other. Some internet conspiracy nutters blame persistent contrails on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bariumblues.com\/haarp_dangers.htm\">HAARP<\/a>, others claim they are a vector for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgellonsexposed.com\/Chemtrails&amp;Morgellons.htm\">Morgellons<\/a> (an infestation of imaginary parasites). Admins1 &amp; 2 were discussing the long life of today&#8217;s aeroplane exhausts over dinner and concluding that it was probably due to humidity, temperature, dewpoint etc when we discovered this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2015\/jan\/04\/weatherwatch-aircraft-contrails\"> coincidental article<\/a> in today&#8217;s paper. So now we know.<br \/>\nAdmin1 is reading <em>The Long Mars<\/em> by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter and watching <em>Orphan Black 2<\/em>. Admin2 is reading <em>Salvation of a Saint<\/em> by Keigo Higashino: tainted love and poisoned coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the sky was filled with a selection of contrails; so many that they threw shadows on each other. Some internet conspiracy nutters blame persistent contrails on HAARP, others claim they are a vector for Morgellons (an infestation of imaginary parasites). Admins1 &amp; 2 were discussing the long life of today&#8217;s aeroplane exhausts over dinner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=4532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Persistence of Contrails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}