{"id":1310,"date":"2015-07-09T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1310-race-to-the-top.html"},"modified":"2015-07-09T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:21:07","slug":"race-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1310-race-to-the-top.html","title":{"rendered":"Race To The Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1847 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1142-_MG_9359_60_61.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe had just settled into our campsite at Rawnsley Park Station in the Flinders Ranges. Gavin had organised a fire for the evening and the others had transitioned into r e l a x e d mode mode and I was almost ready to join them.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe were at the base of a gully with a steep rise and ridge blocking our view to the west, the Elder Range and the sunset. Out of sight and of mind I&#8217;d almost given up on the sunset that night.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI looked at my watch, checked the sunset time, judged the effort to reach the top of the ridge and announced I was off.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNot to one to be left behind, Gavin lept to his feet, grabbed his camera and we were off on a race to the top.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Race To The Top&#8217; 1\/25s f\/16 ISO100 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; We had just settled into our campsite at Rawnsley Park Station in the Flinders Ranges. Gavin had organised a fire for the evening and the others had transitioned into r e l a x e d mode mode and I was almost ready to join them. We were at the base &#8230; <a title=\"Race To The Top\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1310-race-to-the-top.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Race To The Top\">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-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","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=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}