{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-daily.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F20210124-Xtk7CpK5","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Sunday Read: ‘The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community’","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7f2f4c05-9c2f-4deb-82b7-b538062bc22d/73549bf1-94b3-40ff-8aeb-b4054848ec1b/the-daily-album-art-original.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/c7e04a41-451d-4038-bbef-4fead61fc75d\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"The Sunday Read: ‘The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community’\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"The cultural history of clouds seemed to be shaped by amateurs — the likes of Luke Howard and the Honorable Ralph Abercromby — each of whom projected the ethos of his particular era onto those billowing blank slates in the troposphere. Gavin Pretor-Pinney was our era’s.\n\nOn today’s Sunday Read, the story of the Cloud Appreciation Society and how Mr. Pretor-Pinney, backed with good will, challenged the cloud authorities."}