{"id":2588,"date":"2025-11-07T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:52:54","slug":"ephemeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"Ephemeral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_3362-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_3362-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_3362-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_3362-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_3362-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_3362.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gone to bed &#8211; Oraparinna Creek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a bed of stone and sand, the ephemeral creeks of this area still support large trees and unique ecosystems. When they are not carrying water, the trees along the banks provide shade; an important commodity in its own right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a bed of stone and sand, the ephemeral creeks of this area still support large trees and unique ecosystems. When they are not carrying water, the trees along the banks provide shade; an important commodity in its own right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}