{"id":1381,"date":"2009-04-17T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2009-04-17T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:08:26","slug":"ever-been-on-cloud-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Ever been on cloud nine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that &#8220;cloud nine&#8221; is an expression for being blissfully happy and I hope that you frequently inhabit the space &#8211; but what is the origin of the term?<br \/>\nOne explanation is that, when the World Meteorological Organisation amended the system of cloud classification originally developed by the British Luke Howard ( 1772-1864), the ninth cloud on the list became the cumulonimbus which is thought to have a particularly attractive shape.<br \/>\nBut the explanation may not be that straightforward as you&#8217;ll see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/on-cloud-nine.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that &#8220;cloud nine&#8221; is an expression for being blissfully happy and I hope that you frequently inhabit the space &#8211; but what is the origin of the term? One explanation is that, when the World Meteorological Organisation amended the system of cloud classification originally developed by the British Luke Howard ( 1772-1864), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}