{"id":1171,"date":"2015-01-06T21:29:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T10:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1171-banging-the-rocks-together.html"},"modified":"2015-01-06T21:32:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:02:21","slug":"banging-the-rocks-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1171-banging-the-rocks-together.html","title":{"rendered":"Banging The Rocks Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1681 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1002-_MG_9815_6_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere are a couple of big round rocks outside the InterContinental Hotel on North Terrace.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nApart from an interesting subject they reminded me of a line from a Douglas Adams book &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#8220;We\u2019ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy,&#8221; Douglas Adams<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps these are a little big for any any earthly lifeforms but who knows out there in our galaxy and beyond could use a little help because &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#8220;Space is big. You just won&#8217;t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it&#8217;s a long way down the road to the chemist&#8217;s, but that&#8217;s just peanuts to space.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy,&#8221; <br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy apologies to to all those out who are not Douglas Adams fans, you will need smaller rocks.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Banging The Rocks Together&#8217;, 6.0s f\/16 ISO640 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em><\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; There are a couple of big round rocks outside the InterContinental Hotel on North Terrace. Apart from an interesting subject they reminded me of a line from a Douglas Adams book &#8230; &#8220;We\u2019ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret &#8230; <a title=\"Banging The Rocks Together\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1171-banging-the-rocks-together.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Banging The Rocks Together\">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-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","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=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}