{"id":24295,"date":"2019-08-30T22:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T02:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=24295"},"modified":"2019-08-30T22:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T02:33:42","slug":"seriously-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/08\/seriously-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/underegret.jpg\" alt=\"great egret Ardea alba from below\" width=\"750\" height=\"581\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24296\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I just realized that, <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/08\/what\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a year ago<\/a>, I posted a pic of a great blue heron seen from the underside as it perched in a tree above my head, and I had the image above sitting in the blog folder waiting on my chance to make a post, so I couldn&#8217;t let this go by. Is this the start of an annual routine? Well, I guess we&#8217;ll just have to see how often such a thing occurs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is instead a great egret (<em>Ardea alba<\/em>,) a shade smaller than the great blue, but not noticeably, and once again, on the shores of Jordan Lake &#8211; just, like, kilometers away from the spot where I captured the heron. But this one was being unbelievably cooperative after it landed in the tree over my head, so I took full advantage of it &#8211; more pics will be forthcoming. Right now I have to post this to make the anniversary, or I&#8217;m in deep trouble. Somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized that, a year ago, I posted a pic of a great blue heron seen from the underside as it perched in a tree above my head, and I had the image above sitting in the blog folder waiting on my chance to make a post, so I couldn&#8217;t let this go by. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3118,68,3798,5055],"class_list":["post-24295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-ardea-alba","tag-great-egret","tag-jordan-lake","tag-maybe-i-should-specialize-in-chin-shots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295","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=24295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}