{"id":1511,"date":"2013-04-05T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migrate.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2019-12-01T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T18:09:20","slug":"iceland-march-9-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/iceland-march-9-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland: March 9, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the first day of our tour we visited \u00deingvellir National Park<\/a>. The North American and European plates come together here forming rifts and cracks that fill with clear glacial water. We returned here on our last night to photograph the aurora over the \u00d6xar\u00e1rfoss water falls and reflecting in the water filled cracks. But on this night we got our first glimpse at the northern lights over a stream between Gullfoss and Geysir. Please see the Aurora Borealis post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Kj\u00f3sarskar\u00f0svegur\" <\/a>
Kj\u00f3sarskar\u00f0svegur <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The continental drift between the North American and Eurasian Plates can be clearly seen in the cracks or faults which traverse the region. This also causes the often-measurable earthquakes in the area. Some of the rifts are full of surprisingly clear water. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"\u00d6xar\u00e1rfoss <\/a>
\u00d6xar\u00e1rfoss is a small waterfall in \u00deingvellir National Park, Iceland. It flows from the river \u00d6xar\u00e1. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"\u00d6xar\u00e1rfoss <\/a>
\u00d6xar\u00e1rfoss is a small waterfall in \u00deingvellir National Park, Iceland. It flows from the river \u00d6xar\u00e1. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Brekkusk\u00f3gur\" <\/a>
Brekkusk\u00f3gur <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the first day of our tour we visited \u00deingvellir National Park. The North American and European plates come together here forming rifts and cracks that fill with clear glacial water. We returned here on our last night to photograph the aurora over the \u00d6xar\u00e1rfoss water falls and reflecting in the water filled cracks. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[208,211],"tags":[598,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-1511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iceland","8":"category-landscape-photography","9":"tag-iceland","10":"tag-water-falls","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Iceland-6415.jpg?fit=900%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FUJv-on","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}