{"id":11833,"date":"2026-08-11T09:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11833"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:26:49","slug":"is-mother-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11833","title":{"rendered":"Is Mother Upset?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Volcano.jpg?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11834\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4827932821483116;width:369px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Volcano.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Volcano.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Volcano.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Volcano.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Volcano.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mt. Etna! I\u2019ve been there! Not under flowing lava conditions, though. Near the beautiful and historic town of Taormina. I\u2019ve walked the lava fields on the big island of Hawai`i and felt the heat through the soles of my sandals. Unencumbered by scientific knowledge, I wonder whether the current spate of earthquakes and spewing lava indicate Mother Earth is seriously irritated about something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mt. Etna! I\u2019ve been there! Not under flowing lava conditions, though. Near the beautiful and historic town of Taormina. I\u2019ve walked the lava fields on the big island of Hawai`i and felt the heat through the soles of my sandals. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11833\">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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[291,1911],"tags":[2332,2331],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heres-the-latest","category-nature","tag-earthquake","tag-volcano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-34R","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11835,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions\/11835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}