{"id":1864,"date":"2019-01-17T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1864-from-small-things-great-things-come.html"},"modified":"2019-01-17T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:32:00","slug":"from-small-things-great-things-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1864-from-small-things-great-things-come.html","title":{"rendered":"From Small Things Great Things Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2532 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1670-_MG_6203-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI had spent more than five hours under that sparkling rippled surface that most Edithburgh visitors never get to see beneath. I had searched all around and out beyond the jetty, northward up to to the swimming pool and all over the sea grass beds searching in vain for a leafy seadragon. The diving was lovely but alas no dragon.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOver my years of diving leafy&#8217;s have been infrequent visitors here. A handful of dragons will take up residence for a couple of years and then disappear with years between. I guessed it was just that time again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThat night I was in for a rare treat. Not more than ten minutes into my night dive this tiny and beautiful dragon, not more than 40mm in length, came into view setting a precedence for a wonderful night dive and hopefully heralding the leafy seadragons back to Edithbugh.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;From Small Things Great Things Come &#8216;, 1\/160s f\/14 ISO320 100mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had spent more than five hours under that sparkling rippled surface that most Edithburgh visitors never get to see beneath. I had searched all around and out beyond the jetty, northward up to to the swimming pool and all over the sea grass beds searching in vain for a leafy seadragon. The diving was &#8230; <a title=\"From Small Things Great Things Come\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1864-from-small-things-great-things-come.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about From Small Things Great Things Come\">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-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}