{"id":125508,"date":"2021-07-25T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/meteor-lights-up-the-night-in-norway"},"modified":"2021-07-25T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:22:34","slug":"meteor-lights-up-the-night-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/meteor-lights-up-the-night-in-norway","title":{"rendered":"Meteor lights up the night in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meteor-lights-up-the-night-in-norway2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An \u201cunusually large\u201d meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway.<\/p>\n<p>The meteor \u201clit up the sky for a brief time as if broad daylight,\u201d just after 1 a.m., Steinar Midtskogen, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Meteor Network, told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA minute later or more a loud rumbling sound could be heard over a large area, perhaps up to 100 km (about 62 miles) away from where the meteor was seen straight overhead,\u201d Midtskogen said in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An \u201cunusually large\u201d meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway. The meteor \u201clit up the sky for a brief time as if broad daylight,\u201d just after 1 a.m., Steinar Midtskogen, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Meteor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}