{"id":5790,"date":"2016-02-02T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5790"},"modified":"2016-02-02T19:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:56:22","slug":"oh-the-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5790","title":{"rendered":"Oh the Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was my very first visit to the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium and as a diver I was not so sure I was going to enjoy it as much as actually being in the deep wild ocean.<\/p>\n

Sure there were many amazing creatures I’d only ever seen photographs of but then I have had many other amazing marine animal experiences this place could never equal.<\/p>\n

Then I noticed the people.
\nI noticed their mouths agape.
\nI noticed stares of wonder.
\nI noticed for a moment they were glimpsing a world so removed from the ‘day-to-day’ that only the moment mattered.<\/p>\n

I still have mixed feelings about public aquariums but today I could see that these moments matter and that the things we can do to connect with the oceans and their wonder are indeed worth doing.<\/p>\n

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Oh the Wonder’, 1\/100s f\/11 ISO800 17mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was my very first visit to the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium and as a diver I was not so sure I was going to enjoy it as much as actually being in the deep wild ocean. Sure there were many amazing creatures I’d only ever seen photographs of but then I have had many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1380,123,1381,1382,1383,1384,1371,1379,29,394],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aquarium","tag-marinelife","tag-sealife","tag-sealifesydneyaquarium","tag-shark","tag-shovelnoseshark","tag-sydney","tag-sydneyaquarium","tag-travel","tag-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","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=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}