{"id":182,"date":"2012-02-01T04:57:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/182-366-days-of-2012-day-32-fish-for-dinner.html"},"modified":"2012-02-12T22:58:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T12:28:52","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-32-fish-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/182-366-days-of-2012-day-32-fish-for-dinner.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 32 &#8211; Fish for Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"720\" height=\"483\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_7751.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI have seen so many people on our beach sit or stand for ages and never seem to catch anything. It reminds me of an anonymous Polynesian proverb I once heard, &#8220;The Gods never take from a man&#8217;s life the time he spends fishing&#8221;. On the other hand I watched this beautiful Great Egret <\/em>Ardea alba<\/em> at the mouth of the Torrens River for about 30 minutes during which time she certainly filled her belly.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI had never seen a Great Egret on our local beach before so this was a rare treat for me. Because the light was fading and I had no tripod to steady the camera I had no choice but to bump up the ISO and shoot at 1\/500 of a second.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 32 &#8211; Fish for Dinner&#8217;. 1\/500 sec at 400mm f\/5.6, ISO 800<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen so many people on our beach sit or stand for ages and never seem to catch anything. It reminds me of an anonymous Polynesian proverb I once heard, &#8220;The Gods never take from a man&#8217;s life the time he spends fishing&#8221;. On the other hand I watched this beautiful Great Egret Ardea &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 32 &#8211; Fish for Dinner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/182-366-days-of-2012-day-32-fish-for-dinner.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 32 &#8211; Fish for Dinner\">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-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}