{"id":2784,"date":"2015-01-06T18:18:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T07:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2015-01-06T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:16:08","slug":"next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"Banging The Rocks Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of big round rocks outside the InterContinental Hotel on North Terrace.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from an interesting subject they reminded me of a line from a Douglas Adams book &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy,&#8221; Douglas Adams<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps these are a little big for any any earthly lifeforms but who knows out there in our galaxy and beyond could use a little help because &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Space is big. You just won&#8217;t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it&#8217;s a long way down the road to the chemist&#8217;s, but that&#8217;s just peanuts to space.&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My apologies to to all those out who are not Douglas Adams fans, you will need smaller rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Banging The Rocks Together&#8217;, 6.0s f\/16 ISO640 15mm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of big round rocks outside the InterContinental Hotel on North Terrace. Apart from an interesting subject they reminded me of a line from a Douglas Adams book &#8230; &#8220;We\u2019ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}