{"id":242,"date":"2006-05-01T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/arizona-rain\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T20:49:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:49:49","slug":"arizona-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/arizona-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/arizonarain.jpg\" alt=\"Arizona Rain\" align=\"right\"\/>I lived in Southern Arizona for the best part of my first 20 years.  While I can now say that I much prefer the East Coast with the four seasons &#038; lush greenery, pictures like this bring back some fond memories.  The desert has a beauty all its own and one learns to appreciate this in its absence.  Each and every day the sun sets and paints a spectacular view across the sky.  Since there is very little humidity in the air, one can see much greater distances with crisp clarity.  Perhaps my most vivid memory of the desert is the Monsoon season.  For just a month or two of each year, small yet powerful storms sweep across the land.  What makes these events so unique is being able to see them from a distance.  One can actually see the rain falling 20+ miles away.  Bolts of lightning spider from the thunderhead while the torrent of rain can be seen dropping from the clouds like windswept wisps against the horizon.  All the while, the storm creeps closer, the air around you chills &#038; takes on a clean renewed smell.  Yes, I do miss that.  Maybe I&#8217;ll go back one day, but just for a visit! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lived in Southern Arizona for the best part of my first 20 years. While I can now say that I much prefer the East Coast with the four seasons &#038; lush greenery, pictures like this bring back some fond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/arizona-rain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}