{"id":7537,"date":"2017-01-28T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2017-01-29T13:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T17:20:44","slug":"mirages-in-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/mirages-in-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Mirage in 1894"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7539\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mirage-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7539\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7539\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mirage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quote by Erica Jong courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturequotes.com\">picturequotes.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. George Dunbar sent me an email the other day about a curious phenomenon which was deemed to be news-worthy when it happened in the summer of 1894 &#8211; a superior mirage.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Toronto was seen briefly by citizens of our sister city, Buffalo NY, appearing to hover above Lake Ontario. It was believed that a temperature inversion on that hot summer&#8217;s day above the cool lake air created the illusion. Apropos my post a few days back, this event apparently was <em>not<\/em> recorded by a photographer and can only be imagined today.<\/p>\n<p>George was informed of this event by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2017\/01\/24\/the-day-that-toronto-floated-above-lake-ontario-in-buffalo.html\">recent article reported in the Toronto Star<\/a>.\u00a0 We all recall mirages on hot days, often seen while driving when we approach a gently hilly area on our smoothly surfaced highways .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. George Dunbar sent me an email the other day about a curious phenomenon which was deemed to be news-worthy when it happened in the summer of 1894 &#8211; a superior mirage. The city of Toronto was seen briefly by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/mirages-in-photographs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[896,897],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-mirage","tag-news-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}