{"id":386,"date":"2012-08-17T23:41:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/386-366-days-of-2012-day-230-witness.html"},"modified":"2012-08-17T23:41:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T13:11:29","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-230-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/386-366-days-of-2012-day-230-witness.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 230 &#8211; Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:707 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1164\" height=\"688\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/230-_MG_3862_3_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDuring the last week I noticed the demolition of a beach-side residence begin and thought that it might make for some interesting images.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere was only a small crew so I knew it would take a few days. When the rain finally stopped and under cover of darkness I entered the demolition site to witness the end.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOnce this place was a family&#8217;s pride and joy, recently a graffitied squatters camp and now a broken shell open to the night&#8217;s sky. Tomorrow there will only be a pile of rubble and in a few days it will be erased to make way for imagination and creativity to fill the emptied space with something wonderful.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAlas I am dreaming to believe that it will be replaced with anything more creative than another me too twin strata. I witnessed the end and will witness a new beginning.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 230 &#8211; Witness&#8217;. 2-8-30s f\/5.0 ISO3200 15mm hdr<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last week I noticed the demolition of a beach-side residence begin and thought that it might make for some interesting images. There was only a small crew so I knew it would take a few days. When the rain finally stopped and under cover of darkness I entered the demolition site to witness &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 230 &#8211; Witness\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/386-366-days-of-2012-day-230-witness.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 230 &#8211; Witness\">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-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}