{"id":1688,"date":"2017-11-15T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1688-skellig-patrol.html"},"modified":"2017-11-15T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:59:00","slug":"skellig-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1688-skellig-patrol.html","title":{"rendered":"Skellig Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><!-- s9ymdb:2325 --><!-- s9ymdb:2328 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1520-_MG_0822.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThese two beautiful gannets patrolling the waters off Little Skellig easily lived up to their reputation of Ireland\u2019s most majestic seabird.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor a a few moments they flew in to hold perfect formation alongside our ungainly craft. With wings beating in unison and the and effortlessly glide they showed us up a thousand times over.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe gannet colony on Little Skellig has nearly 30,000 breading pairs making it the largest in all of Ireland. I wonder if any like Star Wars?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Skellig Patrol&#8217;, 2s f\/18 ISO320 14mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two beautiful gannets patrolling the waters off Little Skellig easily lived up to their reputation of Ireland\u2019s most majestic seabird. For a a few moments they flew in to hold perfect formation alongside our ungainly craft. With wings beating in unison and the and effortlessly glide they showed us up a thousand times over. &#8230; <a title=\"Skellig Patrol\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1688-skellig-patrol.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Skellig Patrol\">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-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","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=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}