{"id":1545,"date":"2016-06-08T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1545-desert-grace.html"},"modified":"2016-06-09T00:29:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T13:59:11","slug":"desert-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1545-desert-grace.html","title":{"rendered":"Desert Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2145 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1373-_MG_1779.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI remember once hearing an old Polynesian saying, &#8216;The gods do not deduct from man&#8217;s allotted span the hours spent in fishing&#8217;.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI am certain that there also exists the same grace when taking the time to watch the sun fall through the changing colours of the darkening horizon into evening twilight.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor a time we watched that golden orb descend its own diameter every couple of minutes until it kissed the land, and slid gently beneath a desert sea.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe watched the twilight fade through orange, green then to a dim violet grey before making our way down onto the now starlit plain.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Desert Grace&#8217;, 1\/160s f\/16 ISO160 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I remember once hearing an old Polynesian saying, &#8216;The gods do not deduct from man&#8217;s allotted span the hours spent in fishing&#8217;. I am certain that there also exists the same grace when taking the time to watch the sun fall through the changing colours of the darkening horizon into evening &#8230; <a title=\"Desert Grace\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1545-desert-grace.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Desert Grace\">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-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}