{"id":20209,"date":"2025-09-03T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20209"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:32:30","slug":"the-abyss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20209","title":{"rendered":"The Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"472\" data-attachment-id=\"20096\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=20096\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?fit=1801%2C1214&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1801,1214\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1751532273&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"773250273.511063\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?fit=700%2C472&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?resize=700%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20096\" style=\"width:549px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?resize=1024%2C690&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?resize=768%2C518&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?resize=1536%2C1035&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?w=1801&amp;ssl=1 1801w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/773250273.511063.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;I stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedrich_Nietzsche\">Nietzsche<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This meme (I think this is what a meme is) appeared in my information stream about the same time as my dive trip to Curacao. On my previous trip to Curacao we had gone diving at the West end and dove a really steep wall. Howard R had the Nietzche quote ready. I have posted a few pictures from the trip and will try to do more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back.&#8221; Nietzsche This meme (I think this is what a meme is) appeared in my information stream about the same time as my dive trip to Curacao. 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