{"id":2257,"date":"2013-05-08T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2013-05-08T13:55:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:55:14","slug":"our-first-sunrise-on-kauai-2013-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Our First Sunrise on Kauai (2013 Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-IMG_20130508_060712_0614.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20130508_060712_061.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-IMG_20130508_060712_0613.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had the beginnings of a beautiful sunrise between the horizon and this cloud deck. Unfortunately, just as the sun was breaking the horizon, so was the cloud deck lower edge, and it blocked out the sun just as it peeked over the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>I did manage some shots with the Nikon DSLR, and will post them at some point.<br \/>\nSunrise was at 6:01am HST, and it took another 15 minutes or so for the sun to move high enough onto the sky for this shot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-IMG_20130508_061321_5383.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20130508_061321_538.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-IMG_20130508_061321_5382.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sun finally broke above the cloud deck about 6:25am:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-IMG_20130508_062102_1532.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20130508_062102_153.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-IMG_20130508_062102_1531.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a sunrise panorama of the Kauai Beach area, just north of Lihue:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Pano_00371.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pano_0037.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Pano_0037.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with a panorama looking into the Kauai Beach Resort from the beach shortly after sunrise:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Pano_00381.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pano_0038.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Pano_0038.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And another from our lanai that I took about 6:40am:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Pano_00391.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pano_0039.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Pano_0039.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post_sig\">Posted from my Droid Razr Maxx HD using WordPress for Android<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the beginnings of a beautiful sunrise between the horizon and this cloud deck. Unfortunately, just as the sun was breaking the horizon, so was the cloud deck lower edge, and it blocked out the sun just as it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=2257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii-2013","category-kauai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}