{"id":13,"date":"2011-02-16T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T08:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-02-17T00:14:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:14:26","slug":"going-to-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane has a Farmer&#8217;s Market every Wednesday. In-between what they call &#8220;occasional showers&#8221; over here (which I&#8217;d call &#8220;major downpours&#8221;) I took a ferry across to the CBD to have a look. On the way I very nearly didn&#8217;t make the ferry: I found a beautiful heron on the river bank, and thus had to stop to take some shots.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/heron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14\" title=\"Heron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/heron-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"heron\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/heron-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/heron-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/heron.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A heron hunting on the river bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did actually make the ferry with seconds to spare. Not that it would have mattered if I had missed it &#8212; unlike the bus, ferries go every 10 minutes; it&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>The market sells mostly fruit and vegetables, most of it local and all of excellent quality. Here are the goodies I came back with. Doesn&#8217;t this look healthy?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/veggies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15\" title=\"Market Vegetables\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/veggies-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/veggies-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/veggies-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/veggies-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/veggies.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Healthy stuff from the Farmer&#39;s Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane has a Farmer&#8217;s Market every Wednesday. In-between what they call &#8220;occasional showers&#8221; over here (which I&#8217;d call &#8220;major downpours&#8221;) I took a ferry across to the CBD to have a look. On the way I very nearly didn&#8217;t make the ferry: I found a beautiful heron on the river bank, and thus had to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=13\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going to the Market<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brisbane","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}