{"id":2307,"date":"2024-12-31T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2307-the-beacon.html"},"modified":"2024-12-31T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:22:00","slug":"the-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2307-the-beacon.html","title":{"rendered":"The Beacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2976 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/96-DJI_0668-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith the last light of the year\u2019s penultimate afternoon nearly gone we headed west out of Baltimore following a simple little signpost labelled \u2018Beacon\u2019.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe were hoping for a sunset, or maybe a quiet vantage out over the wild Atlantic. No sooner had we reached the Beacon than it seemed half of Baltimore and their dogs chose to join us.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThey did not stay long. Maybe it was the biting wind, or the sun lost in cloud, the fading light or maybe it was the lure of a warm pub back in town.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI took a moment to capture this Beacon of the Wild Atlantic Way with the twinkling lights of Baltimore in the distance and then we joined them.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#baltimore #westcork #cork #ireland #wildatlanticway #beacon #thebeacon #seascape #landscape #aerial #coastline<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the last light of the year\u2019s penultimate afternoon nearly gone we headed west out of Baltimore following a simple little signpost labelled \u2018Beacon\u2019. We were hoping for a sunset, or maybe a quiet vantage out over the wild Atlantic. No sooner had we reached the Beacon than it seemed half of Baltimore and their &#8230; <a title=\"The Beacon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2307-the-beacon.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Beacon\">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-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","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=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}