{"id":187,"date":"2002-11-05T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=187"},"modified":"2002-11-05T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-06T03:30:00","slug":"sounds-of-silence-dinner-at-ayers-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/sounds-of-silence-dinner-at-ayers-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds Of Silence Dinner At Ayer&#8217;s Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/110502a.jpg',1200,381)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/110502a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=925 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>We arrived in Ayer&#8217;s Rock\/Uluru today on this cool ass plane. It&#8217;s painted in aboriginal designs. First on the list was the Sounds of Silence dinner out in the desert. We checked into the hotel and rested a bit before catching the bus out to the &#8220;restaurant&#8221;. At least that&#8217;s what they call it. We watched the sunset and then sat down for dinner and ate barramundi, crocodile, kangaroo, and other assorted critters. It was pretty tasty after a day of travel, and then they blew out all the torches and candles. Then a women came out and gave a star talk under the the biggest dome of stars I&#8217;ve ever seen. The tracking telescopes that were set up weren&#8217;t quite tracking, but looking at the andromeda galaxy was damn cool. Lot&#8217;s of information was thrown out there in a half an hour, but none of it of which I can recall accurately. The Magellanic clouds, The Pleadies, Aurora Australis, etc. Stuff like that. Look &#8217;em up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/110502b.jpg',1200,901)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/110502b.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=925 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived in Ayer&#8217;s Rock\/Uluru today on this cool ass plane. It&#8217;s painted in aboriginal designs. First on the list was the Sounds of Silence dinner out in the desert. We checked into the hotel and rested a bit before catching the bus out to the &#8220;restaurant&#8221;. At least that&#8217;s what they call it. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,27,9,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-friends","category-life","category-photography","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-31","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}