{"id":772,"date":"2013-09-01T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/772-day-610-all-bull.html"},"modified":"2013-08-31T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T10:07:00","slug":"day-610-all-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/772-day-610-all-bull.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 610, All Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1162 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/610-_MG_8237.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs I drove past this big old bull he was resting alone in a field. I immediately pulled over for the photo opportunity.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow here is the dilemma I faced. I was only armed with a wide angle lens which meant getting close, really close. I was not sure how safe that was going to be but I climbed the fence anyway and cautiously made my approach. He seemed like a big old softy with that shaggy face and big brown eyes. As I approached I started taking photos and chatting so that he became used to the sounds I was making.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn the end this is as close as I got (about 4m) before he tossed his head and meandered off in the opposite direction. Perhaps I was lucky considering he was as tall as me an at least 20 times heavier and could have done a lot of damage if he chose. Still I wish I&#8217;d had gotten just that little bit closer.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 610, All Bull&#8217; 1\/250s f\/10 ISO100 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; As I drove past this big old bull he was resting alone in a field. I immediately pulled over for the photo opportunity. Now here is the dilemma I faced. I was only armed with a wide angle lens which meant getting close, really close. I was not sure how safe &#8230; <a title=\"Day 610, All Bull\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/772-day-610-all-bull.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 610, All Bull\">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-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}