{"id":1541,"date":"2016-05-25T02:18:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1541-veins-of-life.html"},"modified":"2016-05-25T02:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:12:24","slug":"veins-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1541-veins-of-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Veins of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2140 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1369-_MG_9958.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThese intricate structures carved into Petermann Pound in the Watarrka National Park carry the lifeblood of the Australian outback, water.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt had been a week since the rains and still some water remains in pools and some has been taken into the earth to nurture the trees of the pound.<br \/>\nMost however has been collected into Petermann Creek before finding its way into the Finke River and eventually the South Australian border hundreds of kilometers to the south east.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom up here these desert waterways could indeed be the veins of some mythical dream-time creature giving life to this arid part of the Australian outback.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Veins of Life&#8217;, 1\/1000s f\/5 ISO100 17mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; These intricate structures carved into Petermann Pound in the Watarrka National Park carry the lifeblood of the Australian outback, water. It had been a week since the rains and still some water remains in pools and some has been taken into the earth to nurture the trees of the pound. Most &#8230; <a title=\"Veins of Life\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1541-veins-of-life.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Veins of Life\">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-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","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=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}