{"id":2322,"date":"2025-07-02T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2322-my-happy-place.html"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:47:00","slug":"my-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2322-my-happy-place.html","title":{"rendered":"My Happy Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2991 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/111-_G2A1961-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt had been far too long since I last soaked up the briny magic off the coast of Kerry.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNo matter how many years I\u2019ve been diving, I still feel a flicker of nerves before that first descent, especially this time \u2014 testing out a new camera setup that had flooded once before.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOnce down, though, my nervousness was replaced with a bliss that divers know so well. Being under the water is a place where the noise and stress of topside life simply vanish. I felt deeply grateful, once again, for the privilege of being a diver.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEven after surfacing, I was in no hurry to leave the water \u2014 lingering to capture a few final images and be at peace in my happy place.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#scuba #diving #kerry #boating #ocean #sea #rib<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had been far too long since I last soaked up the briny magic off the coast of Kerry. No matter how many years I\u2019ve been diving, I still feel a flicker of nerves before that first descent, especially this time \u2014 testing out a new camera setup that had flooded once before. Once down, &#8230; <a title=\"My Happy Place\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2322-my-happy-place.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about My Happy Place\">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-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","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=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}