{"id":1852,"date":"2018-12-19T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1852-a-flash-of-whiteness.html"},"modified":"2018-12-19T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T06:29:00","slug":"a-flash-of-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1852-a-flash-of-whiteness.html","title":{"rendered":"A Flash of Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2522 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1666-_G2A6661.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPeering down into the inky, who knows how deep, black water beneath me I was beginning to question the merit of floating out here in a Norwegian fjord well after sunset. Still it&#8217;s warmer here in the water than in the icy wind above me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThen suddenly a flash of whiteness snaps me out of my moribund reverie and I am wooting with orca joy again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI have no idea if I can capture this beautiful creature in the darkness. Perhaps I&#8217;ll get lucky as he fades into the blackness below.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;A Flash of Whiteness&#8217; 1\/200s f\/2.8 IS12800 35mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peering down into the inky, who knows how deep, black water beneath me I was beginning to question the merit of floating out here in a Norwegian fjord well after sunset. Still it&#8217;s warmer here in the water than in the icy wind above me. Then suddenly a flash of whiteness snaps me out of &#8230; <a title=\"A Flash of Whiteness\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1852-a-flash-of-whiteness.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Flash of Whiteness\">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-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}