{"id":1266,"date":"2015-05-03T17:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T07:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1266-industrial-gemstone.html"},"modified":"2015-05-03T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T08:40:28","slug":"industrial-gemstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1266-industrial-gemstone.html","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Gemstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1801 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1099-_MG_8692-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI found this beautiful mineral specimen recently while exploring the historic Barossa Goldfields.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe most obvious thing about this mineral specimen is of course the gold but when I thought about it a little more I realised that symbolically the ironstone and quartz represented perhaps the real value.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWithout iron the world would have been a very different place and without the silicon we may never had miraculous technologies that the microelectronics industry has created.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo what about the gold? Funnily enough gold is also a very important part of microelectronics and other industrial processes.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPut into perspective, this mineral specimen is a great symbol of our industrial, technological and aesthetic world.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Industrial Gemstone&#8217;, 15s f\/11 ISO100 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I found this beautiful mineral specimen recently while exploring the historic Barossa Goldfields. The most obvious thing about this mineral specimen is of course the gold but when I thought about it a little more I realised that symbolically the ironstone and quartz represented perhaps the real value. Without iron the &#8230; <a title=\"Industrial Gemstone\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1266-industrial-gemstone.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Industrial Gemstone\">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-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","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=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}