{"id":1575,"date":"2016-08-27T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T01:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1575-jasmine-and-the-whale.html"},"modified":"2016-08-27T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T06:04:41","slug":"jasmine-and-the-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1575-jasmine-and-the-whale.html","title":{"rendered":"Jasmine and the Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href="\/serendipity\/" title="Robert's Ramblings"\"\"<\/a>
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\n‘Play with me’, the whale suggested as he circled the girl closer and closer.
\nHow do you play with a creature 400 times your diminutive frame?
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\n‘Play with me’, the whale intoned with a soundless expression and an oh so gentle nudge.
\nHow do you not panic, how do you trust being pushed through the water by a 25 tonne stranger?
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\n‘Play with me’, the whale delighted as they parried to and fro.
\nHow can you not be moved to your core by a being both so alien and so equal?
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\n‘Play with me’, the whale bemoaned as he followed her back to the boat.
\nHow can you leave such a beautiful moment? You can’t, it has changed you, will be forever with you.
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\nI’m sure George (the whale) and Jasmine (the girl) had a thing going on.
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\nWe all had an extraordinary time with George that day, a day we will treasure forever.
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\nPhoto: Robert Rath, ‘Jasmine and the Whale’ 1\/1000s f\/7.1 ISO160 15mm<\/em>
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<a href="\/serendipity\/" title="Robert's Ramblings" ‘Play with me’, the whale suggested as he circled the girl closer and closer. How do you play with a creature 400 times your diminutive frame? ‘Play with me’, the whale intoned with a soundless expression and an oh so gentle nudge. How do you not panic, how do you trust … 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-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","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=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}