{"id":6488,"date":"2017-05-10T00:29:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2017-05-10T00:29:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:59:50","slug":"the-echidna-and-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6488","title":{"rendered":"The Echidna and the Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two days we searched the Golden Triangle, central Victoria, for just a little of that elusive colour.<\/p>\n<p>That intoxicating lust the old timers must have felt was almost palpable here in a region which has given millions over the last 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>Alas despite all our brazen confidence only Mark found the tiniest piece of gold barely larger than the echidna&#8217;s face on our five cent coin.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more than enough however to make sure we come back and try again!<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Echidna and the Gold&#8217;, 20s f\/16 ISO320 100mm+8mm Ext<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two days we searched the Golden Triangle, central Victoria, for just a little of that elusive colour. That intoxicating lust the old timers must have felt was almost palpable here in a region which has given millions over the last 150 years. Alas despite all our brazen confidence only Mark found the tiniest piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1873,35,1739,1879,1878,1876,1874,547,1880,550,1877,1738,1875],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-detecting","tag-gold","tag-goldentriangle","tag-gpx4500","tag-gpx5000","tag-gpz7000","tag-metaldetector","tag-minelab","tag-nugget","tag-prospecting","tag-sdc4300","tag-victoria","tag-wedderburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","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=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}