{"id":435,"date":"2015-04-26T15:20:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/?p=435"},"modified":"2016-01-02T22:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T22:51:21","slug":"day-1-nearly-oh-so-nearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/2015\/04\/day-1-nearly-oh-so-nearly\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &#8211; Nearly, oh so nearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m back. This time with 3 in tow, its time to chase the elusive twister again and so far it has been a tale of near misses.<\/p>\n<p>We had to start late today as Shiv didn&#8217;t touch down from Vegas until 4pm. Unfortunately this was to be the only touchdown of the day for us, as nature teased us, dropping tornadoes and baseball sized hail tantalisingly out of reach. As we closed in on the first storm, it tempted us with some awesome structure only to dissipate just as we arrived. 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This time with 3 in tow, its time to chase the elusive twister again and so far it has been a tale of near misses. We had to start late today as Shiv didn&#8217;t touch down from Vegas until 4pm. Unfortunately this was to be the only touchdown of the day for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}