{"id":336,"date":"2009-12-07T16:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T16:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowtale.net\/diary\/?p=336"},"modified":"2015-05-19T10:42:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:42:02","slug":"afternoon-over-eagle-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Mount Washington, Los Angeles, CA (3:25 PM)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The rains are back in Southern California. This afternoon, I’m lucky enough to be working at home. Glancing out of my window, I noticed this, and scrambled on to the roof via our rickety ladder. I thought of the last (and first, as far as I can remember) time I saw a full rainbow touching down on both sides like this: over Lake Superior last summer, following an intense thunderstorm during my residency on Isle Royale. There I was alone, and the encounter with light felt intensely personal, almost spiritual. Here I got to share this with others, like the couple in raincoats I noticed climbing the stairs on the hillside nearby.<\/p>\n

I was reading today about collective experiences as temporary unifications of subjectivities — the subjectivities that constitute our city, for example. In Los Angeles, we’re more starved for these than in other more pedestrian-oriented urban environments. It’s nice to remember that a shared phenomenon doesn’t have to be a car accident, or smoke from a wildfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rains are back in Southern California. This afternoon, I’m lucky enough to be working at home. Glancing out of my window, I noticed this, and scrambled on to the roof via our rickety ladder. I thought of the last (and first, as far as I can remember) time I saw a full rainbow touching down on both sides like this: over Lake Superior last summer, following an intense thunderstorm during my residency on Isle Royale. There I was alone,Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-diary"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}