{"id":1949,"date":"2007-05-24T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/05\/24\/peek-inside\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:20","slug":"peek-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/05\/24\/peek-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Peek Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had about 10 seconds to snap just one shot, because the lighthouse was jammed with tourists.<\/p>\n<p>It is the inside of a working third-order <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fresnel_lens\">Fresnel lens<\/a> at Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Oregon. (More information on the science of the lens can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/question244.htm\">How Stuff Works<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/501395157\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/218\/501395157_d24001bcf1.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"inside the fresnel lens, yaquina head lighthouse, or\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had about 10 seconds to snap just one shot, because the lighthouse was jammed with tourists. It is the inside of a working third-order Fresnel lens at Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Oregon. (More information on the science of the lens can be found at How Stuff Works.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-regional","category-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11270,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/11270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}