{"id":20161,"date":"2017-04-23T02:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20161"},"modified":"2017-04-21T22:40:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T02:40:31","slug":"sunday-slide-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/04\/sunday-slide-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday slide 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CamoCrab03.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile Atlantic ghost crab Ocypode quadrata showing off camouflage\" width=\"730\" height=\"489\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20162\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I simply love the eye-bending quality of this one, and chances are you&#8217;ve seen it before. I think it was taken on the same beach trip as <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/01\/sunday-slide-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday slide 5<\/a>, early in the morning. That&#8217;s the best time to see Atlantic ghost crabs (<em>Ocypode quadrata<\/em>,) unless you like running around on the beach with a flashlight late at night. Getting this close takes some effort since, for reasons unknown and unfathomable, tiny crabs don&#8217;t like people looming over them. I know, right? So The Girlfriend ran interference, blocking this one from its burrow, as I skootched in closer on my belly to get this perspective. I&#8217;ve been wanting to redo it ever since, mostly to have a variety of perspectives with more beach in there (you know, a &#8220;Find Crabbo&#8221; kind of shot,) but so far the specific conditions have eluded me, even though I managed to snag a couple of shots of the species on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/08\/beach-trip-followup\/\" target=\"_blank\">last Outer Banks trip<\/a>. There are another two beach trips coming up this year, so we&#8217;ll just see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I simply love the eye-bending quality of this one, and chances are you&#8217;ve seen it before. I think it was taken on the same beach trip as Sunday slide 5, early in the morning. That&#8217;s the best time to see Atlantic ghost crabs (Ocypode quadrata,) unless you like running around on the beach with a [&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":[3515,3516],"class_list":["post-20161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-atlantic-ghost-crab","tag-ocypode-quadrata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161","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=20161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}