{"id":4730,"date":"2013-08-31T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T10:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2013-08-31T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T10:48:24","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-sea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4730","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge:  Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 19 and foolish I went swimming alone in an unpatrolled sea.\u00a0 A rip caught me and dragged me out of my depth, where waves dumped and submerged me three times. There was nothing beneath me but water.\u00a0 The fourth wave dumped me on the shore.<\/p>\n<p>These days there are instructive signs at beach entries.\u00a0 Clearly, large numbers of beachgoers were not washed ashore as I was, were not given a second chance.\u00a0 Now lifesavers are trying to warn and educate poor swimmers:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4731\" style=\"width: 682px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/31\/weekly-photo-challenge-sea-2\/ripcurrentsign\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4731\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4731 \" alt=\"Instructions for battling a rip current, Jervis Bay, NSW\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ripcurrentsign.jpg?w=682\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ripcurrentsign.jpg 3648w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ripcurrentsign-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ripcurrentsign-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ripcurrentsign-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ripcurrentsign-1200x1800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructions for battling a rip current, Jervis Bay, NSW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since then I&#8217;ve respected the power of the sea and have retreated from its depths.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve learned a lot by observing it from the edge.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4732\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/31\/weekly-photo-challenge-sea-2\/sony-dsc-40\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4732\" alt=\"Near Sandy Point, NSW\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearsandypoint_nsw.jpg?w=750\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearsandypoint_nsw.jpg 4592w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearsandypoint_nsw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearsandypoint_nsw-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearsandypoint_nsw-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nearsandypoint_nsw-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Near Sandy Point, NSW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 19 and foolish I went swimming alone in an unpatrolled sea.\u00a0 A rip caught me and dragged me out of my depth, where waves dumped and submerged me three times. There was nothing beneath me but water.\u00a0 The fourth wave dumped me on the shore. These days there are instructive signs at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly photo challenge:  Sea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[7,8,228,452,453],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaweek2013","tag-rip-current","tag-weekly-photo-challenge-sea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}