{"id":8581,"date":"2011-10-18T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T07:33:41","slug":"postcard-from-the-summit-sunrise-panorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8581","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Summit &#8211; Sunrise Panorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching sunrise from the summit of Mauna Kea is often the highlight of many visitor&#8217;s trip to the island. Any given morning will see a handful of tour vans and rental Jeeps atop the summit ridge awaiting the first glint of sunlight. A small crowd of camera wielding tourists mill about, gazing at the spectacle or huddle in vehicles to avoid the bitter wind.<\/p>\n<p>I do occasionally stop to watch myself. While the telescope operators head for breakfast down below. I stop and join the crowd for a few minutes. Sometimes you just have to take a moment and enjoy the privilege of working in a place like Mauna Kea.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image for a better appreciation of what it is like to be there&#8230; Without the wind.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8583\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CE24-65-11283-PN.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CE24-65-11283-PN-600x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Panorama\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CE24-65-11283-PN-600x150.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CE24-65-11283-PN-1200x300.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise seen from the summit of Mauna Kea, panorama assembled from ten separate frames.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching sunrise from the summit of Mauna Kea is often the highlight of many visitor&#8217;s trip to the island. Any given morning will see a handful of tour vans and rental Jeeps atop the summit ridge awaiting the first glint of sunlight. A small crowd of camera wielding tourists mill about, gazing at the spectacle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Summit &#8211; Sunrise Panorama&#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":[32,377],"tags":[88,167,502],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581"}],"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=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}