{"id":1131,"date":"2010-06-30T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T04:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2010-06-30T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T04:22:06","slug":"sometimes-i-startle-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2010\/06\/sometimes-i-startle-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I startle myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/snailvine.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"snailvine\" width=\"400\" height=\"634\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1132\" \/>I have been considering, for a while now, having a page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/\" target=\"blank\">main website<\/a> that features recent photographs, just a showcase of pics. But there are times when I want to mention some small detail about the image or the process of obtaining it &#8211; nothing deep, just items of interest. So I really didn&#8217;t want to start adding pages formatted like the rest of the site, but idly wondered what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>And then, like the blinding flash of a firefly, I said to myself, &#8220;Myself, that&#8217;s called a photoblog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, really, I was that slow on the uptake. I got it into my head that this blog was more for illustrations of topics that I examine in greater detail, and not simply showing off photos. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a snail avoiding the heat during the day. It&#8217;s closed off the opening of the shell with a gossamer membrane that they can extrude, which I suspect also helps it remains stuck to the vine while keeping moisture inside. You can see where the snail itself has retracted back into the shell a short distance.<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been considering, for a while now, having a page on the main website that features recent photographs, just a showcase of pics. But there are times when I want to mention some small detail about the image or the process of obtaining it &#8211; nothing deep, just items of interest. So I really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}