{"id":156,"date":"2012-01-12T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/156-366-days-of-2012-day-12-sentinel.html"},"modified":"2012-01-22T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T04:27:13","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-12-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/156-366-days-of-2012-day-12-sentinel.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 12 &#8211; Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:321 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"720\" height=\"483\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_7164.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTonight I headed down to the beach berating myself for not being ready sooner. The sun was setting through patchy cloud and I thought I was missing that golden last 30 minutes of the day. When I arrived the sun had dropped behind cloud but would appear again just on sunset.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs I readied my camera I noticed a man in a dark hoody standing in the breaking surf intently watching the unfolding sunset. As I watched I was struck by a deep sense of a silent, watchful guardian. A broad shouldered sentinel; sharply defined, motionless and watchful. I imagined it&#8217;s patient vigilance, forever on guard and ready to act.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8230; Robert<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Sentinel&#8217;. 1\/160 sec at 190mm f\/7.1, ISO 125<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n <br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I headed down to the beach berating myself for not being ready sooner. The sun was setting through patchy cloud and I thought I was missing that golden last 30 minutes of the day. When I arrived the sun had dropped behind cloud but would appear again just on sunset. As I readied my &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 12 &#8211; Sentinel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/156-366-days-of-2012-day-12-sentinel.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 12 &#8211; Sentinel\">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-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}