{"id":3157,"date":"2012-03-03T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2012-03-03T22:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T08:18:31","slug":"end-of-an-island-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3157","title":{"rendered":"End of an Island Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Thompson&#8217;s house has become something of an island legend.  When the rest of the development burned beneath the lava his house was spared.  For three decades the lava has repeatedly run past the house.  East and west there was nothing but lava fields, around the house lush Puna jungle created an island amongst the devastation.<\/p>\n<p>Jack&#8217;s luck has finally run out, madame Pele claiming the last house in the Royal Gardens subdivision.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/jack-thompsons-royal-gardens-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">get the whole story<\/a>, along with a set of photos at Leigh&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hawai&#8217;i Lava Daily<\/a> blog.  Leigh was there for the last hours, photographing the lava, and helping Jack remove a few last belongings when the time came to take the last helicopter out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3158\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3158\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3158\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/LRH_0811-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Thompson&#039;s House and the Lava\" title=\"Jack Thompson&#039;s House and the Lava\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/LRH_0811-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/LRH_0811.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lava flow approaching Jack Thompson&#039;s House, photo by Leigh Hilbert, used with permission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Thompson&#8217;s house has become something of an island legend. When the rest of the development burned beneath the lava his house was spared. For three decades the lava has repeatedly run past the house. East and west there was nothing but lava fields, around the house lush Puna jungle created an island amongst the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;End of an Island Legend&#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":[30,33],"tags":[297,296,298,228],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157"}],"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=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}