{"id":9789,"date":"2021-09-17T00:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spriteclub.com.au\/?p=9789"},"modified":"2021-09-17T08:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:31:55","slug":"mid-week-meander-southern-sojourn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/?p=9789","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Week Meander &#8211; Southern Sojourn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?resize=474%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?resize=1024%2C605&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?resize=300%2C177&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?resize=768%2C454&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?resize=1536%2C907&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?w=1598&amp;ssl=1 1598w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20210915_094509.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Spring in the air and the Winter Solstice well in the past, it was time for Russell and Judy Schmarr to dust off the previous Meander that did not occur due to poor weather. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2.jpg?resize=474%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2.jpg?w=572&amp;ssl=1 572w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2.jpg?resize=300%2C138&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So in bright sunlight our Spridgeteers and a few others &nbsp;gathered in 10 cars at Blackwood Railway Station to set out at 10 am on the Sprite Club&#8217;s Mid-Week Meander &#8211; 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Please keep an eye on the calendar for the next one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Don Williams, Steve Leane and Russell and Judy Schmarr for the great photos!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Spring in the air and the Winter Solstice well in the past, it was time for Russell and Judy Schmarr to dust off the previous Meander that did not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/?p=9789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mid-Week Meander &#8211; Southern Sojourn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-spritely-chat","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgyCDM-2xT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}