{"id":1526,"date":"2016-03-30T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1526-enchanted-forest.html"},"modified":"2016-03-31T00:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:03:38","slug":"enchanted-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1526-enchanted-forest.html","title":{"rendered":"Enchanted Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2116 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1355-_MG_0439.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis forest is like non other. It&#8217;s enchanted.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTake a stroll though any old forest anywhere else and the birds fly out of reach, the rodents hide out of sight while the larger animals just run away.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTake a swim through this forest though and it&#8217;s like animal wonderland. Fish fly like birds and butterflies around the trunks from ground to canopy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLarger fish cruise through the scene at eye level keeping no more than an arms length out of reach.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nStill larger animals like sharks and rays wander through occasionally, wary but making no attempt to hide as they go about their business.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEvery touchable surface from bottom to sky is teaming with animal life such as sponges, crabs, sea stars, ascidians and invertebrates.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis enchanted place under the old Rapid Bay Jetty is my kind of forest.<br \/>\n <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Enchanted Forest&#8217; 1\/125 f\/9 ISO640 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; This forest is like non other. It&#8217;s enchanted. Take a stroll though any old forest anywhere else and the birds fly out of reach, the rodents hide out of sight while the larger animals just run away. Take a swim through this forest though and it&#8217;s like animal wonderland. Fish fly &#8230; <a title=\"Enchanted Forest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1526-enchanted-forest.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Enchanted Forest\">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-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","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=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}