{"id":28,"date":"2009-01-24T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2009-01-25T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:58:43","slug":"on_capturing_gods_great_creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/on_capturing_gods_great_creation\/","title":{"rendered":"On Capturing God&#8217;s Great Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such perfectly formed snowflakes falling late at night last weekend. You think, &#8220;Wow, wouldn&#8217;t it be neat to get a picture of one?&#8221; Meanwhile, God says, &#8220;Silly mortal, you believe you can reduce God&#8217;s Great Creation to a mere <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/winter\/index.htm\">curiosity of winter<\/a>? Who are you, mere moral, thinking you can simply point-and-shoot God&#8217;s Great Creation?&#8221; And the answer is, surely not I . . . neither with a flash:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/winter\/34vernonblvd01-18-090357.jpg\" alt=\"Snowflakes, Vernon Boulevard and 49th Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, January 18, 2009, 3:57 a.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/winter\/36vernonblvd01-18-090358.jpg\" alt=\"Snowflake, Vernon Boulevard and 49th Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, January 18, 2009, 3:58 a.m.\" width=\"732\" height=\"549\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/winter\/37vernonblvd01-18-090358.jpg\" alt=\"Snowflakes, Vernon Boulevard and 49th Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, January 18, 2009, 3:58 a.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nor without a flash:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/winter\/38vernonblvd01-18-090358.jpg\" alt=\"Snowflakes, Vernon Boulevard and 49th Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, January 18, 2009, 3:58 a.m.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such perfectly formed snowflakes falling late at night last weekend. You think, &#8220;Wow, wouldn&#8217;t it be neat to get a picture of one?&#8221; Meanwhile, God says, &#8220;Silly mortal, you believe you can reduce God&#8217;s Great Creation to a mere curiosity of winter? Who are you, mere moral, thinking you can simply point-and-shoot God&#8217;s Great Creation?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citywide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}