{"id":1439,"date":"2015-12-11T22:42:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1439-searching.html"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:42:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:12:24","slug":"searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1439-searching.html","title":{"rendered":"Searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:1999 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1267-_MG_9409.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA solitary gull drifts back and forth in the late afternoon, its gaze intent on the breaking surf beneath it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf it were human it might be searching for unusual shells discarded by their deceased owners to add to a growing collection.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf it were a flying fish it might be searching for a safe place to dive back under the waves again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe truth more likely is that the prize will be some unsuspecting critter about to become the evening&#8217;s dinner.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Searching&#8217;, 1\/6400s f\/5.6 ISO400 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solitary gull drifts back and forth in the late afternoon, its gaze intent on the breaking surf beneath it. If it were human it might be searching for unusual shells discarded by their deceased owners to add to a growing collection. If it were a flying fish it might be searching for a safe &#8230; <a title=\"Searching\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1439-searching.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Searching\">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-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}