{"id":1483,"date":"2016-02-02T19:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1483-oh-the-wonder.html"},"modified":"2016-02-02T20:23:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:53:04","slug":"oh-the-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1483-oh-the-wonder.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh the Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2062 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1312-_MG_9550.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis was my very first visit to the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium and as a diver I was not so sure I was going to enjoy it as much as actually being in the deep wild ocean.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSure there were many amazing creatures I&#8217;d only ever seen photographs of but then I have had many other amazing marine animal experiences this place could never equal.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThen I noticed the people.<br \/>\nI noticed their mouths agape.<br \/>\nI noticed stares of wonder.<br \/>\nI noticed for a moment they were glimpsing a world so removed from the &#8216;day-to-day&#8217; that only the moment mattered.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI still have mixed feelings about public aquariums but today I could see that these moments matter and that the things we can do to connect with the oceans and their wonder are indeed worth doing.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Oh the Wonder&#8217;, 1\/100s f\/11 ISO800 17mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my very first visit to the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium and as a diver I was not so sure I was going to enjoy it as much as actually being in the deep wild ocean. Sure there were many amazing creatures I&#8217;d only ever seen photographs of but then I have had many &#8230; <a title=\"Oh the Wonder\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1483-oh-the-wonder.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oh the Wonder\">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-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}