{"id":658,"date":"2010-02-18T01:28:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2010-02-18T01:28:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:28:02","slug":"photos-the-scale-of-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/658","title":{"rendered":"Photos: The Scale of Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to judge the size of things in Antarctica. There is absolutely nothing man made with which to compare the ice covered mountains. No buildings or masts or pylons. Worse than that, there&#8217;s not even any trees or bushes or grass. There&#8217;s just rock and ice and snow and the sea. Nothing else. Mountains just loom over you, and you&#8217;re not sure if they are huge and close, or even huger and far away. <\/p>\n<p>Until you see another ship between you and a glacier. The dome of ice in the background probably rises about 2000 meters. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sosauce.com\/photo\/loadImage2.do?s=lcsQYcGAvi7-.jpg\" alt=\"Big mountain, small ship.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zoom in a bit for a better view:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sosauce.com\/photo\/loadImage2.do?s=bv7wTv6VLfo-.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took these two photos in the Gerlache Strait, the channel between the Antarctic Peninsular and Anver&#8217;s Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to judge the size of things in Antarctica. There is absolutely nothing man made with which to compare the ice covered mountains. No buildings or masts or pylons. Worse than that, there&#8217;s not even any trees or bushes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}