{"id":1608,"date":"2016-12-03T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1608-downside-up.html"},"modified":"2016-12-03T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T01:56:16","slug":"downside-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1608-downside-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Downside Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2225 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1439-_MG_2587.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDownside upside downside up &#8230;. It&#8217;s quite irrelevant to a whale&#8217;s watery realm.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeeting George this year in Vava&#8217;u, Tonga, was one of the most extraordinary moments of my life and has set things in motion I could never have envisioned.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI have already written about George and my first encounter with him in an earlier post. I&#8217;ve recalled how he terrified me, how he delighted me, captivated me and played with me. I have described how he lifted me gently out of the water, rolled me over and back in, then belly-rubbed me as he swam by.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGeorge left me overwhelmingly wanting to not only share my experiences and my images, but also to encourage others to travel to Tonga. I want everyone to swim with these beautiful humpback whales and come back with their own experiences to share.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSince meeting George and the humpback whales of Tonga, I&#8217;ve felt a calling to do more for their cause and our marine environment. Perhaps I&#8217;ve already inspired others through my images and my writing. I hope so.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Downside Up&#8217;, 1\/800s f\/7.1 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; Downside upside downside up &#8230;. It&#8217;s quite irrelevant to a whale&#8217;s watery realm. Meeting George this year in Vava&#8217;u, Tonga, was one of the most extraordinary moments of my life and has set things in motion I could never have envisioned. I have already written about George and my first encounter &#8230; <a title=\"Downside Up\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1608-downside-up.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Downside Up\">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-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","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=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}