{"id":3363,"date":"2008-06-24T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/06\/fire\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T04:36:07","slug":"fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/06\/fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked into work today under a beautiful, cloudless, sky &#8211; until I looked in the direction of the UJ campus, where an ugly black cloud was accumulating in the direction of the building that houses the Geology department. It was only when I got much closer that it became clear (to my relief) that the fire was some way beyond the campus grounds, and it wasn&#8217;t the result of an overheating mass spectrometer or something. Here&#8217;s a picture from the roof of our building:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JoburgFire1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/JoburgFire1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fire seemed to have died down a bit by the time I took this photo, because the thickest cloud had already drifted over us in the direction of the city centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JoburgFire2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/JoburgFire2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JoburgFire3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/JoburgFire3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing on the news about this yet, but one of my colleagues reckons that it might be a substation that has caught fire before (apparently Eskom&#8217;s maintentance philosophy is something along the lines of &#8216;leave it until something explodes&#8217;). Hopefully, no-one has been hurt.<br \/>\nFor some reason, I&#8217;m thinking that today is a good day to back up my data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked into work today under a beautiful, cloudless, sky &#8211; until I looked in the direction of the UJ campus, where an ugly black cloud was accumulating in the direction of the building that houses the Geology department. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/06\/fire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-bloggery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}