{"id":1592,"date":"2016-10-05T23:09:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1592-the-longest-walk.html"},"modified":"2016-10-05T23:09:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:39:02","slug":"the-longest-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1592-the-longest-walk.html","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2205 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1421-_MG_4907.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis walker will have walked more than three and a half kilometers by the time he returns from his stroll to the end and back.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt nearly two kilometers, Busselton Jetty is the longest wooden jetty in the world and a drawcard to this region three hours south of Perth.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI dived here more than twenty years ago but unlike our local jetty dives, the only sensible way to get to the end of the jetty is by boat.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t really remember much about what we found here beneath the waves so long ago. I think I remember seahorses. I certainly remember many of fish species here were the same as those back home.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI am certain no one was diving here today with turbid cappuccino water crashing around the pylons and onto the beach.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps this guy is a diver making the longest walk to the end and back instead.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Longest Walk&#8217; 1\/250s f\/10 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; This walker will have walked more than three and a half kilometers by the time he returns from his stroll to the end and back. At nearly two kilometers, Busselton Jetty is the longest wooden jetty in the world and a drawcard to this region three hours south of Perth. I &#8230; <a title=\"The Longest Walk\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1592-the-longest-walk.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Longest Walk\">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-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}