{"id":6669,"date":"2012-02-01T19:33:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T09:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2017-05-27T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T09:04:23","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-32-fish-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6669","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 32 &#8211; Fish for Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen so many people on our beach sit or stand for ages and never seem to catch anything. It reminds me of an anonymous Polynesian proverb I once heard, &#8220;The Gods never take from a man&#8217;s life the time he spends fishing&#8221;. On the other hand I watched this beautiful Great Egret Ardea alba at the mouth of the Torrens River for about 30 minutes during which time she certainly filled her belly.<\/p>\n<p>I had never seen a Great Egret on our local beach before so this was a rare treat for me. Because the light was fading and I had no tripod to steady the camera I had no choice but to bump up the ISO and shoot at 1\/500 of a second.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 32 &#8211; Fish for Dinner&#8217;. 1\/500 sec at 400mm f\/5.6, ISO 800<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen so many people on our beach sit or stand for ages and never seem to catch anything. It reminds me of an anonymous Polynesian proverb I once heard, &#8220;The Gods never take from a man&#8217;s life the time he spends fishing&#8221;. On the other hand I watched this beautiful Great Egret Ardea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","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\/6669","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=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}