{"id":1594,"date":"2012-03-06T01:17:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2012-07-30T20:23:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T20:23:41","slug":"the-landing-of-the-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/the-landing-of-the-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Landing of the Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday very late afternoon, I went out for a walk by the river with the intention to mull over a math problem in my head. But I took my camera with me just in case. And I&#8217;m really glad I did so. After lingering by the river bank for a while, this splendid swan swooshed by, wings spread out as its feet touched down and created a splashy rift in the water, gleaming as the sparkling droplets caught the last rays of the setting sun. I snapped this photo with the Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 lens at its longest focal length setting. I do wish I was using a longer telephoto lens at the time since it would have enabled me to get quite a lot more resolution, but alas! I certainly was not expecting to meet this lovely creature on my walk, was I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday very late afternoon, I went out for a walk by the river with the intention to mull over a math problem in my head. But I took my camera with me just in case. And I&#8217;m really glad I did so. After lingering by the river bank for a while, this splendid swan swooshed by, wings spread out<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/the-landing-of-the-swan\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[228,99,227,101,420,18,226,144],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-christ-church-meadow","tag-landing","tag-meadow","tag-oxford","tag-river","tag-swan","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}