{"id":2022,"date":"2020-08-20T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2022-lonesome-jetty.html"},"modified":"2020-08-20T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:41:00","slug":"lonesome-jetty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2022-lonesome-jetty.html","title":{"rendered":"Lonesome Jetty"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2683 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1819-DJI_0066.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere\u2019s something not quite right about Whyalla\u2019s amazing new jetty. There\u2019s no one on it!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo be fair it\u2019s pretty new, having been completed in the midst of COVID-19 lock down. Apparently the council is concerned about social distancing but after a dinner evening at Whyalla\u2019s Westland Hotel I am not convinced that social distancing is the issue.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo what\u2019s really going on? There are no ladders, and no safe way to assist anyone who might fall into the water!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLocal community members are concerned and on raising the issue have been told by the Whyalla City Council that a safety ladder would encourage bad behaviour like jetty jumping! That\u2019s like saying we wont install airbags in cars because it might encourage reckless driving.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI\u2019ll speculate that someone just forgot and is now red faced making excuses while it remains closed until the safety issues have been resolved one way or another.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#whyalla #jetty #sunset #goldenhour #safety #ladders #southaustralia","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something not quite right about Whyalla\u2019s amazing new jetty. There\u2019s no one on it! To be fair it\u2019s pretty new, having been completed in the midst of COVID-19 lock down. Apparently the council is concerned about social distancing but after a dinner evening at Whyalla\u2019s Westland Hotel I am not convinced that social distancing &#8230; <a title=\"Lonesome Jetty\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2022-lonesome-jetty.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lonesome Jetty\">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-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","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=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}