{"id":1765,"date":"2018-07-05T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1765-a-rip-in-the-canvas.html"},"modified":"2018-07-06T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:47:09","slug":"a-rip-in-the-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1765-a-rip-in-the-canvas.html","title":{"rendered":"A Rip in the Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2418 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1588-1G2A0134.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs I drove home earlier in the week I noticed a great rent in the clouds opening up as if someone had taken a knife to the sky.<br \/>\nThere was of course nowhere safe to stop atop the Port River expressway bridge and I&#8217;m sure it would not have been legal regardless.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI nearly drove on being happy to just take in the sight when a little way on inspiration took me and I found a place to pull over. Crossing the four lanes of high speed merging traffic was a little nerve racking and when I did get to the safety of the medium I was a little shaken. Note to self: cars travelling a high speed appear from nowhere and without warning!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe walk back and up to the crest of the bridge between the two opposing flows of traffic was fortunately uneventful and I got to stand admiring that ripped canvas peacefully oblivious to the cars and trucks all around me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI stayed awhile up there as the sun disappeared and that ripped canvas tore slowly apart like some giant zipper revealing a clear blue grey sky beyond.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;A Rip in the Canvas&#8217;, 1\/320s f5.6 ISO200 100mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I drove home earlier in the week I noticed a great rent in the clouds opening up as if someone had taken a knife to the sky. There was of course nowhere safe to stop atop the Port River expressway bridge and I&#8217;m sure it would not have been legal regardless. I nearly drove &#8230; <a title=\"A Rip in the Canvas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1765-a-rip-in-the-canvas.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Rip in the Canvas\">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-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}