{"id":8593,"date":"2021-07-06T02:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2021-07-06T02:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:02:35","slug":"river-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=8593","title":{"rendered":"River Scorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful pelican glides into view as I watch from the tranquil river bank. How strange it seems to me, this green brown waterway so far from the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>In the river\u2019s reflection I see another creature, a creature of dry, arid places. A desert dweller lurks here too in the most incongruous of realms; somewhere between reflection and imagination.<\/p>\n<p>I am missing my ocean but the pelican is happy here in the backwaters of the River Murray; as long as he or she does not see the lurking scorpion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful pelican glides into view as I watch from the tranquil river bank. How strange it seems to me, this green brown waterway so far from the ocean. In the river\u2019s reflection I see another creature, a creature of dry, arid places. A desert dweller lurks here too in the most incongruous of realms; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,417,2835,2834,2833,465,733,786,483,2836,115,1446,345,1189],"class_list":["post-8593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-katarapko","tag-loxton","tag-murray","tag-nature","tag-pelican","tag-reflection","tag-river","tag-scorpion","tag-southaustralia","tag-tranquil","tag-water","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593","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=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8595,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions\/8595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}