{"id":12613,"date":"2012-04-28T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2012-04-30T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:38:08","slug":"surprise-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/28\/surprise-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise In The Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing up weeding the milkweeds, I came inside the house for a little while when I heard the deep and heavy rumblings of a plane I am not used to hearing. Living under a regular flight path you get used to normal, every day plane sounds. I quickly glanced out my bedroom window and to my joy and amazement I saw a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, an American bomber much used during World War II, flying south over our backyard. By the time I grabbed my camera and ran outside it had already banked to the right and was flying out over the Pacific, heading west into a clich\u00e9d sunset. At least I got this shot before it flew away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/B-24-04-28-12-lo-res.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12613]\"><img data-attachment-id=\"12614\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/28\/surprise-in-the-sky\/b-24-04-28-12-lo-res\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/B-24-04-28-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1335637163&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;300&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"B-24 04-28-12 lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/B-24-04-28-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/B-24-04-28-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12614\" title=\"B-24 04-28-12 lo-res\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/B-24-04-28-12-lo-res-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/B-24-04-28-12-lo-res.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/B-24-04-28-12-lo-res.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing up weeding the milkweeds, I came inside the house for a little while when I heard the deep and heavy rumblings of a plane I am not used to hearing. Living under a regular flight path you get used to normal, every day plane sounds. I quickly glanced out my bedroom window and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/28\/surprise-in-the-sky\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-3hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9389,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/10\/16\/walk-along-rose-starns\/","url_meta":{"origin":12613,"position":0},"title":"Walk Along Rose Marie Starns","date":"October 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Went for a truncated evening walk along Rose Marie Starns South Shores Park at Mission Bay with the Tapias. 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