{"id":118438,"date":"2016-04-15T07:38:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118438\/optical-illusion-a-mirage-in-the-desert\/"},"modified":"2016-04-15T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:56:50","slug":"optical-illusion-a-mirage-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/04\/15\/optical-illusion-a-mirage-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical illusion: A mirage in the desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mirage is an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103644\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/04\/Corbis-42-15983745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103644\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/04\/Corbis-42-15983745-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"Fezzan, Libya --- Mirage and Caravan --- Image by \u00a9 Kazuyoshi Nomachi\/Corbis\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fezzan, Libya &#8212; Mirage and Caravan &#8212; Image by \u00a9 Kazuyoshi Nomachi\/Corbis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The mirage scene from <em>Lawrence of Arabia<\/em>  <\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ud1zpHW3ito' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='6d377998e1b824af828645aeaea65319'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An optical illusion is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":118487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10650,10651,10428,10652],"class_list":["post-118438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-lawrence-of-arabia","tag-mirage","tag-optical-illusion","tag-perceived-images"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Lawrence of Arabia","mirage","optical illusion","perceived images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}