{"id":1583,"date":"2016-09-16T22:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1583-leviathan.html"},"modified":"2016-09-16T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:55:02","slug":"leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1583-leviathan.html","title":{"rendered":"Leviathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2196 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1411-_MG_0608.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA tiny fin breaks the surface as the waves all around flatten in a way they disquiets the soul. Below a dark shape looms beneath the oddly stilled water.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWithout warning the tiny fin rises to becomes a massive black life-scarred body. Larger and larger until my vision is filled by an animal that could drown us all in an idle gesture.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThen in the gentlest of movements the leviathan arches to dive. It&#8217;s massive body flowing up and over and down back into the depths again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor a while we gazed at that expanse of stilled water where moments before a giant had been before the ocean reclaimed its own and the waves returned.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Leviathan&#8217; 1\/2000 f\/5 ISO160 160mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; A tiny fin breaks the surface as the waves all around flatten in a way they disquiets the soul. Below a dark shape looms beneath the oddly stilled water. Without warning the tiny fin rises to becomes a massive black life-scarred body. Larger and larger until my vision is filled by &#8230; <a title=\"Leviathan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1583-leviathan.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Leviathan\">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-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","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=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}