{"id":2083,"date":"2026-01-21T11:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:24:26","slug":"the-winter-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/the-winter-illusion","title":{"rendered":"The Winter Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Early morning walk around a lake during the winter provides immense opportunities &#8212; to see things differently, visualise it from various angles, see what you normally ignore&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree in the photograph is a favourite spot for Cormorants, Cranes, Kites, and several other birds. Some day we see a pond Heron waiting for its prey, some other day a little cormorant spreading its wings and sitting majestically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree, at that moment, seemed to be incomplete without its reflection in that lake&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302-384x384.jpg 384w, https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302-960x960.jpg 960w, https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10002507701613359538653880302.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">the winter illusion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning walk around a lake during the winter provides immense opportunities &#8212; to see things differently, visualise it from various angles, see what you normally ignore&#8230; The tree in the photograph is a favourite spot for Cormorants, Cranes, Kites, and several other birds. Some day we see a pond Heron waiting for its prey,&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,99,52,46],"tags":[210,195,155,39,73],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakes","category-photography","category-urban","category-water","tag-210","tag-bangalore","tag-birds","tag-environment","tag-lakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raks.in\/deux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}