{"id":12496,"date":"2010-04-26T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2010-04-26T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T09:11:08","slug":"icelandic-volcano-eyjafjallajokull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/26\/icelandic-volcano-eyjafjallajokull\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone and their brother wrote about the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in the last couple of weeks or so.\u00a0 I read everything from personal complaints of delayed flights, to jokes, to serious analysis of the impact on the economy, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 And nothing seemed to touch my nerve.\u00a0 Yes, it’s Mother Nature and she has a way of showing to us how small, insignificant, and fragile we are.\u00a0 But that’s nothing new, not to me at least.\u00a0 But what did impress me out of my skin was The Big Picture blog post<\/a>, filled, as usual, with stunning images.\u00a0 I think unless you see them all, you haven’t really learned anything about this volcano.<\/p>\n

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Everyone and their brother wrote about the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in the last couple of weeks or so.\u00a0 I read everything from personal complaints of delayed flights, to jokes, to serious analysis of the impact on the economy, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 And nothing seemed to touch my nerve.\u00a0 Yes, it’s Mother Nature … Continue reading Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[1338,841],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-disasters","tag-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14603,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/17\/japanese-tragedy-continued\/","url_meta":{"origin":12496,"position":0},"title":"Japanese tragedy continued","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Big Picture continues the series on Japanese disaster. \u00a0As on of the comments says: It's just incredible how tragedy is heaping upon tragedy - the earthquake, then tsunami, then reactor problems, volcano - and now frigid weather. 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