{"id":60519,"date":"2023-03-25T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=60519"},"modified":"2023-04-24T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T02:11:36","slug":"rare-event-northern-light-seen-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/rare-event-northern-light-seen-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Event: Northern Lights Seen In North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From WRAL:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"WqB044\">An Asheville photographer captured an incredibly rare event Thursday night: The Northern Lights, typically not visible this far south, dazzling in the starry, purple North Carolina skies.\u00a0The photos,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ashevillepictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken by Asheville Pictures<\/a>, were shared by the US National Weather Service in Greenville, SC.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">An Asheville photographer captured an incredibly rare event Thursday night: The Northern Lights, typically not visible this far south, dazzling in the starry, purple North Carolina skies.<br \/>\nThe photos, taken by Asheville Pictures, were shared by the US National Weather Service in Greenville, SC.<\/div>\n<div>[SD note: What did the Chinese think the northern lights were? &#8220;In Chinese culture it was believed that the Northern Lights were <b>caused by epic battles between different dragons<\/b>. Good and evil dragons were breathing fire across the sky while fighting their celestial battle, and humans saw those lights as the Northern Lights&#8221;].<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"signs\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1679738790\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Rare Event: Northern Lights Seen In North Carolina\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WRAL: An Asheville photographer captured an incredibly rare event Thursday night: The Northern Lights, typically not visible this far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-signs","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}