{"id":1590,"date":"2016-10-03T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1590-the-strike.html"},"modified":"2016-10-04T01:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:37:14","slug":"the-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1590-the-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"The Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2203 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1419-_MG_4966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn 1892 William Ford and Arthur Bayley had been prospecting near the Western Australian country town of Coolgardie.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTheir story tells how one evening their bush camp was swept away by a flash flood. In their dismay, vowing they&#8217;d had enough, they searched for all their scattered belongings with the intention of quitting.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn their searching amid the freshly exposed ground they discovered gold. A total of 16kg of gold for two men who had given up all hope.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWilliam and Arthur are officially credited with starting the first Western Australian gold rush and this statue, sculpted by Western Australian artist Greg James, stands outside the Perth Mint in tribute to their &#8216;strike&#8217; and the ensuing wealth for the state of Western Australia.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Strike&#8217; 1\/3200s f\/1.8 ISO100 50mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; In 1892 William Ford and Arthur Bayley had been prospecting near the Western Australian country town of Coolgardie. Their story tells how one evening their bush camp was swept away by a flash flood. In their dismay, vowing they&#8217;d had enough, they searched for all their scattered belongings with the intention &#8230; <a title=\"The Strike\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1590-the-strike.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Strike\">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-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}