{"id":5189,"date":"2026-11-04T06:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5189"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:13:37","slug":"steaming-craters-of-erta-ale-volcano-at-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5189","title":{"rendered":"Steaming craters of Erta Ale volcano at sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/steaming-craters-of-erta-ale-volcano-at-sunrise.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An aerial view of dark volcanic craters with steam rising from them across a brown lava field\" class=\"wp-image-5188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/steaming-craters-of-erta-ale-volcano-at-sunrise.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/steaming-craters-of-erta-ale-volcano-at-sunrise.jpg?resize=250%2C167&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/steaming-craters-of-erta-ale-volcano-at-sunrise.jpg?resize=700%2C467&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/steaming-craters-of-erta-ale-volcano-at-sunrise.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/steaming-craters-of-erta-ale-volcano-at-sunrise.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Steam rises from the craters of Erta Ale, an active volcano in Ethiopia, seen from above at sunrise. The photographer says he took it on his last trip there in June 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steam rises from the craters of Erta Ale, an active volcano in Ethiopia, seen from above at sunrise. The photographer says he took it on his last trip there in June 2021.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nibbytravels\/status\/1460590166473641987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nibbytravels.eth (@nibbytravels) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam rises from the craters of Erta Ale, an active volcano in Ethiopia, seen from above at sunrise. The photographer says he took it on his last trip there in June 2021. Steam rises from the craters of Erta Ale, an active volcano in Ethiopia, seen from above at sunrise. The photographer says he took\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"photographer":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2696],"tags":[2808,2807,2806,108,1661,2809],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places","tag-afar","tag-danakil-depression","tag-erta-ale","tag-ethiopia","tag-landscape","tag-volcano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/steaming-craters-of-erta-ale-volcano-at-sunrise.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}