{"id":18008,"date":"2016-03-12T09:14:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T09:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18008"},"modified":"2016-03-12T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T09:14:39","slug":"nasty-dancing-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/03\/12\/nasty-dancing-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasty dancing rocks: boulders in Glenwood Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Nasty dancing rocks<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Oob6U4gfsrQ\">This video<\/a> was apparently shot in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glenwood_Canyon\">Glenwood Canyon<\/a> in Colorado in February 2016 by Heidi Swain.\u00a0 It is a great example of what is sometimes described as nasty dancing rocks &#8211; i.e. boulders rolling down steep slopes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oob6U4gfsrQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The manner in which some boulders start rotating and thus accelerate down the slope, with large bounces, is very apparent in the video, as is shown in this captured image:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18010\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18010\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18010\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/03\/16_03-nasty-dancing-rocks.jpg\" alt=\"Nasty dancing rocks \" width=\"632\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/03\/16_03-nasty-dancing-rocks.jpg 632w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/03\/16_03-nasty-dancing-rocks-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nasty dancing rocks &#8211; a still from a Youtube video by Heidi Swain<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video from Glenwood Canyon in Colorado shows nasty dancing rocks &#8211; boulders rolling down a steep slope. The potential for damage is huge.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":18010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1075,469,963,56,48],"class_list":["post-18008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-boulders","tag-featured","tag-landslide-video","tag-rockfall","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}