{"id":1461,"date":"2016-01-05T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T07:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1461-the-austrian.html"},"modified":"2016-01-05T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T07:26:57","slug":"the-austrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1461-the-austrian.html","title":{"rendered":"The Austrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2026 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1287-_MG_5216-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAirports are amazing places to sit back and take in one of humanity&#8217;s simplest and at the same time most complex endeavors, travel.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOnce a man simply grabbed his hat, his coat, a bag of belongings then walked out the door and off down some road or path. Now there are machines, technology, customs, merchandising, queues and complex infrastructure.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe things that will never change are people and their stories.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Austrian could have lived in Vienna a century ago but his story may not have been very different from today.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Austrian&#8217;, 1\/250s f\/3.2 ISO640 50mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airports are amazing places to sit back and take in one of humanity&#8217;s simplest and at the same time most complex endeavors, travel. Once a man simply grabbed his hat, his coat, a bag of belongings then walked out the door and off down some road or path. Now there are machines, technology, customs, merchandising, &#8230; <a title=\"The Austrian\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1461-the-austrian.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Austrian\">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-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","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=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}