{"id":153,"date":"2013-07-20T23:18:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T22:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2013-07-20T23:26:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T22:26:38","slug":"lightening-strike-in-godmersham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Lightening strike in Godmersham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;ve never seen this before. I was visiting Godmersham Church recently. It&#8217;s a small village about half way between Ashford and Canterbury. Just to the left of the entrance to the church stands a tree which appears to have received a lightening strike.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;gouge&#8217; runs from as far up as I can see to ground level, following a spiral path.<a href=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120110.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154 alignright\" alt=\"A view showing the spiral path\" src=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120110-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120110-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120110-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is 15 to 20cm deep and is heavily charred within. It seems to me that the bark has begun to grow inwards and so I wondered if this meant it had happened quite some time ago. I guess it was struck near the top and luckily for it, the current ran down the moist outer material to ground. I imagine the moisture instantaneously boils and the material literally explodes with the pressure from gasses produced?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it is a sight to behold, and I am very glad the tree survived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120055.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-155\" alt=\"20130720_120055\" src=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120055-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120055-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120055-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120101.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-156\" alt=\"20130720_120101\" src=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120101-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120101-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130720_120101-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;ve never seen this before. I was visiting Godmersham Church recently. It&#8217;s a small village about half way between Ashford and Canterbury. Just to the left of the entrance to the church stands a tree which appears to have received a lightening strike. A &#8216;gouge&#8217; runs from as far up as I can see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}