{"id":1646,"date":"2017-05-09T23:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1646-the-echidna-and-the-gold.html"},"modified":"2017-05-10T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:58:10","slug":"the-echidna-and-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1646-the-echidna-and-the-gold.html","title":{"rendered":"The Echidna and the Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2273 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1478-_MG_9180.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor two days we searched the Golden Triangle, central Victoria, for just a little of that elusive colour.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThat intoxicating lust the old timers must have felt was almost palpable here in a region which has given millions over the last 150 years.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAlas despite all our brazen confidence only Mark found the tiniest piece of gold barely larger than the echidna&#8217;s face on our five cent coin.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s more than enough however to make sure we come back and try again!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Echidna and the Gold&#8217;, 20s f\/16 ISO320 100mm+8mm Ext<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two days we searched the Golden Triangle, central Victoria, for just a little of that elusive colour. That intoxicating lust the old timers must have felt was almost palpable here in a region which has given millions over the last 150 years. Alas despite all our brazen confidence only Mark found the tiniest piece &#8230; <a title=\"The Echidna and the Gold\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1646-the-echidna-and-the-gold.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Echidna and the Gold\">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-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","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=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}