{"id":12992,"date":"2014-04-19T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12992"},"modified":"2014-03-23T13:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:20:35","slug":"rain-gauge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12992","title":{"rendered":"Rain Gauge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_12997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12997\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=12997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12997\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CG23-16-14082-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Gauge\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12997\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hand made rain gauge<\/figcaption><\/figure>Desert dwellers take rain seriously.  Living much of my life in the Sonoran Desert has instilled a reverence for rain.  Waikoloa is little different, the driest area of the island, we typically get around 10-15 inches of rain each year.<\/p>\n<p>The original gauge was a cheap plastic unit that was starting to crack.  It had served many years, <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12603\" target=\"_blank\">repairs to the lanai<\/a> required its removal.  The board it was fastened to was beginning to rot and needed to be replaced.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=10750\">plumeria<\/a> were overrunning its location as well, blocking the rain.<\/p>\n<p>A glass tube rain gauge ordered on eBay was the starting point.  The cheap stamped aluminum base just begged to be replaced with something better.  A few minutes of thought and an idea was formed. Off to the garage with the tube of glass, rummaging through the stash of supplies commenced.<\/p>\n<p>The holder was assembled with the same skills and tools I use for constructing and repairing electronic devices.  Copper wire and solder, with thin brass alloy used for the leaves.<\/p>\n<p>A couple hours bending and twisting the wire, soldering each joint as I went.  A section of one inch copper pipe stood in for the fragile glass tube during forming.  Twisted wire and little metal leaves&#8230; Much classier than the stamped aluminum base supplied with the gauge.<\/p>\n<p>Who says engineers are not artistic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desert dwellers take rain seriously. Living much of my life in the Sonoran Desert has instilled a reverence for rain. Waikoloa is little different, the driest area of the island, we typically get around 10-15 inches of rain each year. The original gauge was a cheap plastic unit that was starting to crack. It had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12992\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rain Gauge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[1656,1655,1657,919,850],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13002,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions\/13002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}