{"id":20548,"date":"2017-07-16T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20548"},"modified":"2017-07-16T01:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T05:26:03","slug":"sunday-slide-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/07\/sunday-slide-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday slide 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GroundHatching02.jpg\" alt=\"ground skink egg Scincella lateralis beginning to hatch\" width=\"730\" height=\"514\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20549\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is just another perspective on the little story <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/Reptiles\/Hatching.html\" target=\"_blank\">found here<\/a>, since I shot the saga in both digital and film. What you&#8217;re seeing is the egg of a ground skink (<em>Scincella lateralis<\/em>,) right at the moment of hatching. Actually, it takes more than a moment, and this one in particular stayed in this position\/state for quite a while, up until I left the camera for <em>seven<\/em> minutes. During that time away, naturally, the skink emerged completely from the shell. Not only does it take patience to be a nature photographer, it takes more patience than that. &#8220;Than what?&#8221; you ask. Than whatever you imagine when you think of, &#8220;patience.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2013\/08\/lessons-learned\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just another perspective on the little story found here, since I shot the saga in both digital and film. What you&#8217;re seeing is the egg of a ground skink (Scincella lateralis,) right at the moment of hatching. Actually, it takes more than a moment, and this one in particular stayed in this position\/state [&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":[3914,957,1426,2377,958],"class_list":["post-20548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-egg","tag-ground-skink","tag-hatching","tag-patience","tag-scincella-lateralis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20548","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=20548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}