{"id":17564,"date":"2015-09-07T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=17564"},"modified":"2015-09-06T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T19:15:23","slug":"monday-color-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/09\/monday-color-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday color 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AzaleaAssassin.jpg\" alt=\"assassin bug Zelus luridus on pink azalea blossom\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17565\" \/>Looking at how the day is shaping up out there, it seems like this is a pink kind of day, so this image has been specially chosen to fit in with the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>[Which is nonsense. I set up the Monday color posts usually several days in advance, and they&#8217;re scheduled to post at 2 AM. I have no idea what Monday is going to bring as I&#8217;m typing this.]<\/p>\n<p><em>Zelus luridus<\/em> is a fairly common little green assassin bug, and they loved the azalea bushes at the old place &#8211; actually, <em>everything<\/em> loved the azalea bushes. But it was simply a matter of time and patience before I would capture their bright green bodies against the vivid pink of the flowers, despite the fact that they were standing out about as much as any insect could. But c&#8217;mon, look at the size of that braincase &#8211; we&#8217;re not talking geniuses here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think? Do you suppose I should have cropped a little tighter on the top right and gotten that tiny splash of green out of there? Did you even notice it? I wonder about these factors sometimes.<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at how the day is shaping up out there, it seems like this is a pink kind of day, so this image has been specially chosen to fit in with the conditions. [Which is nonsense. I set up the Monday color posts usually several days in advance, and they&#8217;re scheduled to post at 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903],"tags":[3123,1717],"class_list":["post-17564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","tag-pink-azalea","tag-zelus-luridus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564","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=17564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}