{"id":1292,"date":"2015-06-17T00:50:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1292-wondering-what-its-like-to-dive.html"},"modified":"2015-06-17T01:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:36:43","slug":"wondering-what-its-like-to-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1292-wondering-what-its-like-to-dive.html","title":{"rendered":"Wondering What It&#8217;s Like To Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1827 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"598\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1125-_MG_8821.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOk so it&#8217;s the start of winter and as the water gets colder the neoprene gets thicker, the gloves get donned and the hood gets worn in a kind of claustrophobic sufferance.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBy now thoughts of exotic warm dive locations are distant memories and the shine of the idea of being a diver is starting to dull. Ten seconds later and as the sky disappears behind a choppy curtain so do all those little reasons why it is no fun to dive in winter.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOnece I am down there in that alien world I have forgotten the preparation, forgotten the hours driving, forgotten the weight of all the gear and even forgotten the cold. It is a privilege that I treasure.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow I wonder what the gentleman looking down from above is thinking. Is he wondering what it&#8217;s like to dive?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Wondering What It&#8217;s Like To Dive&#8217; 1\/125s f\/11 ISO320 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Ok so it&#8217;s the start of winter and as the water gets colder the neoprene gets thicker, the gloves get donned and the hood gets worn in a kind of claustrophobic sufferance. By now thoughts of exotic warm dive locations are distant memories and the shine of the idea of being &#8230; <a title=\"Wondering What It&#8217;s Like To Dive\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1292-wondering-what-its-like-to-dive.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wondering What It&#8217;s Like To Dive\">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-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}