{"id":1003,"date":"2014-04-14T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1003-day-835-birkenhead-bridge.html"},"modified":"2014-04-25T19:29:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T08:59:42","slug":"day-835-birkenhead-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1003-day-835-birkenhead-bridge.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 835, Birkenhead Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1491 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"639\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/835-_MG_6476.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI have always been fascinated by Port Adelaide&#8217;s Birkenhead Bridge.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe idea that a bridge can decide to not be a bridge anymore, open up to let tall ships through and then transform back into a bridge again seemed to me to be a marvel of engineering.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo be fair I was only a child at the time and up until that realisation a bridge was a bridge,  was a bridge,  was a bridge!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy experience of a transforming bridge must seem so naive in this day of mechanical transformers such as Optimus Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo me however, Port Adelaide&#8217;s Birkenhead Bridge will always be the original transformer! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 835, Birkenhead Bridge&#8217;, 1\/8000s f16 ISO100 130mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I have always been fascinated by Port Adelaide&#8217;s Birkenhead Bridge. The idea that a bridge can decide to not be a bridge anymore, open up to let tall ships through and then transform back into a bridge again seemed to me to be a marvel of engineering. To be fair I &#8230; <a title=\"Day 835, Birkenhead Bridge\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1003-day-835-birkenhead-bridge.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 835, Birkenhead Bridge\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}