{"id":19164,"date":"2016-07-31T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=19164"},"modified":"2016-07-31T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:45:12","slug":"end-of-july-twofer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/07\/end-of-july-twofer\/","title":{"rendered":"End of July twofer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/AbstractGiantLotus.jpg\" alt=\"white water lotus blossom closeup\" width=\"730\" height=\"1045\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19165\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>As I&#8217;m trying to get back to posting more, without much hope because of, you know, <em>things<\/em>, I&#8217;ll at least keep up with the month-end abstract. In fact, I offer two this month. I did not get the specific scientific name for this blossom, but it&#8217;s a water lotus at the botanical garden, semi-purposefully shot with a short depth of field. I say semi-purposefully because the light didn&#8217;t really give the option of a smaller aperture for a handheld shot, but I also knew that and chose a subject that could work in such circumstances. So there.<\/p>\n<p>As for the second image, it&#8217;s another hint of things to come, as I try to get around to writing up a &#8216;part three&#8217; post. This was a rare shot, or at least, rare for those conditions too. I&#8217;ll explain more later.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/AbstractBeachSky.jpg\" alt=\"least tern Sternula antillarum against sunrise clouds\" width=\"730\" height=\"466\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19166\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m trying to get back to posting more, without much hope because of, you know, things, I&#8217;ll at least keep up with the month-end abstract. In fact, I offer two this month. I did not get the specific scientific name for this blossom, but it&#8217;s a water lotus at the botanical garden, semi-purposefully shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,4,3],"tags":[3513,3514,349,3512],"class_list":["post-19164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-least-tern","tag-sternula-antillarum","tag-sunrise","tag-water-lotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19164","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=19164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}