{"id":1215,"date":"2015-02-19T21:20:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T10:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1215-the-pit.html"},"modified":"2015-02-19T21:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T10:50:03","slug":"the-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1215-the-pit.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1740 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"623\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1046-_MG_8599.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI normally associate a name like &#8216;The Pit&#8217; with some lair filled with foul beasts but this place could not be further from that idea.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis special location only a short swim from the Edithburgh Jetty never fails to enthrall me with its beautiful white sandy bottom rimmed inside a low circular reef.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSchools of Old Wives and Bullseyes swim with their undersides aglow by the reflecting sand-light while Cuttlefish and Rockling hide under ledges with Snook hovering in ambush in the macro algae above.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Pit really is a gentle and beautiful place to dive.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Pit&#8217; 1\/125 f\/11 ISO640 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I normally associate a name like &#8216;The Pit&#8217; with some lair filled with foul beasts but this place could not be further from that idea. This special location only a short swim from the Edithburgh Jetty never fails to enthrall me with its beautiful white sandy bottom rimmed inside a low &#8230; <a title=\"The Pit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1215-the-pit.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Pit\">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-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","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=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}