{"id":1580,"date":"2016-09-08T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1580-ballistic-joy.html"},"modified":"2016-09-08T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:31:00","slug":"ballistic-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1580-ballistic-joy.html","title":{"rendered":"Ballistic Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2192 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1408-_MG_2553-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nImagine for a moment you are battleship engaged in some mortal cat and mouse game with an enemy submarine.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSuddenly out of the deep blue gloom a long grey torpedo shaped object comes into view heading directly for midships.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith no time for evasive maneuvers, counter measures are your only hope now.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCloser and closer it gets until you realise it is not a torpedo after all. It is the submarine about to ram you!!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOk, so I have played up the drama just a little but actually having 25 tonnes of grey ballistic whale swimming directly at you comes with its own unique combination of fear, panic, distress, acceptance and joy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn the future if I ever find myself targeted by a large grey underwater ballistic object I sincerely hope it is a humpback whale.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Ballistic Joy &#8216; 1\/125s f\/6.3 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; Imagine for a moment you are battleship engaged in some mortal cat and mouse game with an enemy submarine. Suddenly out of the deep blue gloom a long grey torpedo shaped object comes into view heading directly for midships. With no time for evasive maneuvers, counter measures are your only hope &#8230; <a title=\"Ballistic Joy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1580-ballistic-joy.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ballistic Joy\">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-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}