{"id":6232,"date":"2016-09-24T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T06:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2016-09-27T22:27:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:57:38","slug":"watery-grotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6232","title":{"rendered":"Watery Grotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only one drawn to the mystery of the nooks and crannies of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Just like me these paddlers want to know what&#8217;s inside Swallows Cave. <\/p>\n<p>Just like me the darkness piques their curiosity, leads them to explore the cracks and the fissures and the places the light can&#8217;t reach.<\/p>\n<p>A short while later, when they had seen all they thought there was to see they paddled back out into the stark sunlight again.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s curious is they never saw me floating here in the watery darkness observing their explorations.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what else is down here, never seen, observing all of us?<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Watery Grotto&#8217; 1\/30s f\/3.2 ISO1600 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only one drawn to the mystery of the nooks and crannies of the world. Just like me these paddlers want to know what&#8217;s inside Swallows Cave. Just like me the darkness piques their curiosity, leads them to explore the cracks and the fissures and the places the light can&#8217;t reach. A short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1655,1681,1680,1643,70,1651,1654,1641,29,1642],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-caves","tag-exploring","tag-grotto","tag-kingdomoftonga","tag-ocean","tag-snorkelling","tag-swallowscave","tag-tonga","tag-travel","tag-vavau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232","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=6232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}