{"id":1705,"date":"2017-12-17T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1705-an-omen-on-my-right.html"},"modified":"2017-12-18T01:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T15:29:43","slug":"an-omen-on-my-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1705-an-omen-on-my-right.html","title":{"rendered":"An Omen on My Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><a class=\"serendipity_image_link\" href=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1537-_MG_9637.jpg\"><!-- s9ymdb:2355 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"629\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1537-_MG_9637.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen I took this image outside of an Edinburgh pub the myths of ancient Greece could not have been further from my mind. Then I started reading the works of Homer.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA recurring theme in both Homer&#8217;s &#8216;The Iliad&#8217; and &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; is the omen of a bird in flight. Even more powerful is where a bird of prey carries in its talons livestock or other quarry.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA bird seen on the right and the omen would be one of success but on the left such an omen would spell downfall or disaster.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn the Greek myths the bird of prey is always a great eagle carrying a sheep or pig or goat. If you squint a little and use your imagination this hawk could be that great eagle and the rat, a young pig.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRegardless, just make sure it stays on your right.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;An Omen on My Right&#8217;, 1\/200s f\/2.8 ISO100 200mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took this image outside of an Edinburgh pub the myths of ancient Greece could not have been further from my mind. Then I started reading the works of Homer. A recurring theme in both Homer&#8217;s &#8216;The Iliad&#8217; and &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; is the omen of a bird in flight. Even more powerful is where a &#8230; <a title=\"An Omen on My Right\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1705-an-omen-on-my-right.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about An Omen on My Right\">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-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}