{"id":2076,"date":"2021-07-06T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2076-river-scorpion.html"},"modified":"2021-07-06T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:05:00","slug":"river-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2076-river-scorpion.html","title":{"rendered":"River Scorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2736 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1870-_G2A0523.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA beautiful pelican glides into view as I watch from the tranquil river bank. How strange it seems to me, this green brown waterway so far from the ocean.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn the river\u2019s reflection I see another creature, a creature of dry, arid places. A desert dweller lurks here too in the most incongruous of realms; somewhere between reflection and imagination.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI am missing my ocean but the pelican is happy here in the backwaters of the River Murray; as long as he or she does not see the lurking scorpion.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#pelican #river #murray #loxton #katarapko #tranquil #waterfowl #birds #scorpion #reflection #water #animals #nature #southaustralia<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful pelican glides into view as I watch from the tranquil river bank. How strange it seems to me, this green brown waterway so far from the ocean. In the river\u2019s reflection I see another creature, a creature of dry, arid places. A desert dweller lurks here too in the most incongruous of realms; &#8230; <a title=\"River Scorpion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2076-river-scorpion.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about River Scorpion\">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-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}