{"id":26044,"date":"2020-04-20T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26044"},"modified":"2020-04-20T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:57:40","slug":"the-fog-this-morning-smelled-like-a-grass-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/the-fog-this-morning-smelled-like-a-grass-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fog This Morning Smelled Like A Grass Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I awakened before dawn to the smell of stale smoke.  <\/p>\n<p>Initially, I thought it was the wind coming down my chimney and picking up the scent of last week&#8217;s wood fires in the firebox, but its prevalence and eventual resolution into something more akin to a grass fire than a wood fire led me outside to see if any horizon or, worse, pasture adjacent to Nogglestead or Nogglestead itself were on fire.  I haven&#8217;t grilled in a couple of days, and it&#8217;s been years since I set my yard on fire whilst grilling (embers from the fire would occasionally alight upon and alight a mulched flower bed across the driveway-a flowerbed that was not renewed after the second such incident).<\/p>\n<p>It also awakened my beautiful wife, and when you&#8217;re awakened by an alarm&#8211;even if it&#8217;s only the scent of a fire&#8211;you don&#8217;t go back to sleep easily.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it was the remnant particles of this, suspended:  <a href=\"http:\/\/greenecountycommonwealth.com\/content\/200-acres-miscanthus-go-smoke?fbclid=IwAR2JNJsdFGqEJcEfkXje3JBKO2aLi5PvK9nKsAhKApLNGjDcncyPaL0rZRM\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 acres of miscanthus go up in smoke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a little northwest of here, so probably not.  But sometimes we get the scents of grass fires that are dozens or hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Just we&#8217;d rather not get them while we&#8217;re trying to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I awakened before dawn to the smell of stale smoke. Initially, I thought it was the wind coming down my chimney and picking up the scent of last week&#8217;s wood fires in the firebox, but its prevalence and eventual resolution into something more akin to a grass fire than a wood fire led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26045,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26044\/revisions\/26045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}