{"id":9911,"date":"2015-07-02T08:32:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9911"},"modified":"2015-07-06T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:48:40","slug":"skywatch-friday-getting-ready-for-the-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9911","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Getting Ready for the Fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Fireworks Trailer Impressions Swirly Strokes III 75pct by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/18730042404\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/478\/18730042404_57da088cb9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks Trailer Impressions Swirly Strokes III 75pct\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was doing my Wednesday night run and came upon this scene on the west bank of the Arkansas River. Trailers loaded with fireworks getting ready for Tulsa&#8217;s fireworks display on the fourth. I never knew that they started preparations so early. Our family loves fireworks!!<\/p>\n<p>I cheated on this photo, as I often do. I ran it through Topaz Impressions which mimics various painting styles and I blended in the &#8220;Swirly Strokes III&#8221; filter at 75% blend with the original photo. I wanted to show the trailer and trailers are not often photogenic so the effect was to &#8220;smudge&#8221; it a little bit. (Heather has a painter in her family and she told me that she often &#8220;smudged&#8221; things. I&#8217;m not a painter but I feel free to smudge, you should also.) As you can tell I am not much of a &#8220;SOOC&#8221; worshiper. I don&#8217;t even know what the means, really.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, all my fellow Americans, enjoy the Fourth!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linking with Skywatch Friday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing my Wednesday night run and came upon this scene on the west bank of the Arkansas River. Trailers loaded with fireworks getting ready for Tulsa&#8217;s fireworks display on the fourth. I never knew that they started preparations so early. Our family loves fireworks!! I cheated on this photo, as I often do. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[1193],"class_list":["post-9911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch","tag-skywach-friday-july-fourth-topaz-impressions-digital-art-fireworks-smudging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9913,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions\/9913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}