{"id":6603,"date":"2017-04-27T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T02:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/word.christopherwagner.org\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2017-04-27T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T02:04:06","slug":"aurora-borealis-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/word.christopherwagner.org\/?p=6603","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Borealis 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, we saw the aurora borealis!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always wanted to see the aurora borealis so this was a rather big deal to us. We had to drive to a place about 2hrs north of the cities and even then it was really, really, super, duper, faint and a very weak storm. 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