{"id":20783,"date":"2017-08-13T02:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20783"},"modified":"2017-08-12T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T00:56:04","slug":"sunday-slide-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/08\/sunday-slide-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday slide 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EmeraldGreenPortrait02.jpg\" alt=\"emerald tree boa Corallus caninus portrait, captive shot\" width=\"730\" height=\"1079\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20784\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is an emerald tree boa (<em>Corallus caninus<\/em>) &#8211; or at least, it was when this was taken back in 2005. In 2009, herpetologists suggested that there was a separate species from a different geographic area, so this one <em>might<\/em> have changed taxon then when I wasn&#8217;t there to witness it.<\/p>\n<p>I would certainly like to be getting such pics in &#8220;the wild,&#8221; but as yet I have not traveled to South America, despite the excessive funds that nature photography brings in. Instead, this was photographed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/index\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences<\/a> in Raleigh. Emerald tree boas have virtually no other position that they can be found in, but I just liked the textures of the skin. Those pits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an emerald tree boa (Corallus caninus) &#8211; or at least, it was when this was taken back in 2005. In 2009, herpetologists suggested that there was a separate species from a different geographic area, so this one might have changed taxon then when I wasn&#8217;t there to witness it. I would certainly like [&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":[3996,3995,3997],"class_list":["post-20783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-corallus-caninus","tag-emerald-tree-boa","tag-nc-museum-of-natural-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783","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=20783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}