{"id":1586,"date":"2016-09-24T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T05:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1586-watery-grotto.html"},"modified":"2016-09-27T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:55:32","slug":"watery-grotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1586-watery-grotto.html","title":{"rendered":"Watery Grotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2199 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/1414-_MG_2377.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not the only one drawn to the mystery of the nooks and crannies of the world.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nJust like me these paddlers want to know what&#8217;s inside Swallows Cave. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nJust like me the darkness piques their curiosity, leads them to explore the cracks and the fissures and the places the light can&#8217;t reach.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA short while later, when they had seen all they thought there was to see they paddled back out into the stark sunlight again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s curious is they never saw me floating here in the watery darkness observing their explorations.<br \/>\n <br \/>\nI wonder what else is down here, never seen, observing all of us.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Watery Grotto&#8217; 1\/30s f\/3.2 ISO1600 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&#8217;m not the only one drawn to the mystery of the nooks and crannies of the world. Just like me these paddlers want to know what&#8217;s inside Swallows Cave. Just like me the darkness piques their curiosity, leads them to explore the cracks and the fissures and the places the light &#8230; <a title=\"Watery Grotto\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1586-watery-grotto.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Watery Grotto\">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-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","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=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}