{"id":6995,"date":"2011-05-28T06:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T06:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2011-05-28T06:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T06:53:52","slug":"shimmering-on-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/shimmering-on-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimmering on the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bahamas-cave-diving-530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bahamas-cave-diving-530-390x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6996\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The floods have done something amazing to the <a href=\"http:\/\/imagecache2.allposters.com\/images\/NGSPOD\/1061514.jpg\">inland Australian landscape <\/a>that is perhaps only rivalled by the fabulously unique underwater landscapes that are rarely glimpsed by the landbound. It is a rare event that mostly only occurs in <a href=\"http:\/\/resources2.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/02\/11\/1226004\/507770-lake-eyre-flowing.jpg\">La Nina weather patterns<\/a>: the overflowing of Lake Eyre.<\/p>\n<p>And where is all this additional water coming from? Tropical cyclones, with their destructive winds, which develop over the Pacific Ocean as far away as Fiji. So out of natural disaster (as we call it because of our cities and human settlement patterns) comes a natural wonder. <\/p>\n<p>Is there a better way for us to accommodate the cycles of nature within our human environments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The floods have done something amazing to the inland Australian landscape that is perhaps only rivalled by the fabulously unique underwater landscapes that are rarely glimpsed by the landbound. It is a rare event that mostly only occurs in La Nina weather patterns: the overflowing of Lake Eyre. And where is all this additional water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}