{"id":1571,"date":"2018-12-27T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2019-07-21T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T14:06:50","slug":"bismuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/27\/bismuth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bismuth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the most wonderful aspects of the Christmas holiday\nis when someone special in your life shows how much they know you with the\nperfect gift. It isn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t so much the monetary value of the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cthing\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d but a\nstatement of clarity in how well you are known and loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My artist daughter got me a number of fossils, and precious\npieces that really made my day special but the most beautiful from an artistic\nperspective were these wonderful Bismuth crystals. In case you have never seen\nthem, they are a naturally forming metallic crystal that forms these amazing\nshapes while cooling and then oxidation adds the wonderful colors to the\nsurface that you see here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that my own sense of wonder needed reinforcing but once\nagain, this spectacular world we live in found a way to display its beauty\nthrough yet another magical form. Beauty is not always animal or vegetable,\nwith mineral clearly shining brightly in such a precious manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope these images add a little color to your week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6510-1024x683.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6510-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1581\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1581\" class=\"wp-image-1581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6510-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6510-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6510-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6510-1200x800.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6510.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6515-1024x682.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6515-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1591\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1591\" class=\"wp-image-1591\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6515-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6515-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6515-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6515-1200x799.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6515.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6517-1024x682.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6517-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1601\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1601\" class=\"wp-image-1601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6517-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6517-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6517-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6517-1200x799.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p6517.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most wonderful aspects of the Christmas holiday is when someone special in your life shows how much they know you with the perfect gift. It isn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t so much the monetary value of the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cthing\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d but a statement of clarity in how well you are known and loved. My artist daughter got me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/27\/bismuth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bismuth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}