{"id":1055,"date":"2014-06-07T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1055-day-887-sacred-wings.html"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:42:00","slug":"day-887-sacred-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1055-day-887-sacred-wings.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 887, Sacred Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1549 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/887-_MG_7593.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOf all the pools in Tirtha Empul there was one guarded by shoulder high walls and no obvious way to reach the water.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe colour of the water was a gorgeous turquoise fringed with green. Longs thin strands of dark green algae as fine as angle&#8217;s hair held tenuously to the bottom as the bubbling water gushed from a rent in the centre of the pool.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDark sand bubbled and broiled as the bottom shifted and moved with the flowing spring. No wonder this place was made sacred centuries ago, now off limits to mere mortals<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt least the birds still have the freedom to swoop in on sacred wings and drink as they please.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 887, Sacred Wings&#8217; 1\/1600s f\/2.8 ISO3200 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Of all the pools in Tirtha Empul there was one guarded by shoulder high walls and no obvious way to reach the water. The colour of the water was a gorgeous turquoise fringed with green. Longs thin strands of dark green algae as fine as angle&#8217;s hair held tenuously to the &#8230; <a title=\"Day 887, Sacred Wings\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1055-day-887-sacred-wings.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 887, Sacred Wings\">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-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","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=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}