{"id":25311,"date":"2020-01-22T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=25311"},"modified":"2020-01-22T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T05:02:03","slug":"contrived-is-an-ugly-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/01\/contrived-is-an-ugly-word\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Contrived’ is an ugly word"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey hey hey, and ‘wahoo’ even! Today is Retro-Amphibian Day<\/strong>, also known by its European moniker, Dig Out An Old Photo ‘Cause Yain’t Postin’ Shit Day<\/strong>, and so, slave to tradition that I am, I present this image from a little over six months ago, saved in the blog folder for this exact purpose.<\/p>\n

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Along an overflow channel for the nearby pond, I was belly-down in the grass with the headlamp late one night, checking out the critters in the water<\/a>, and found this tiny little spud very close by, once again making me self-conscious about how I moved. No more than 15mm nose to butt, it was too small to be spotted casually, and even a careful examination of where I placed my feet could easily have missed it. I shuffled a lot after that, very slowly, hoping to spook any others before I accidentally smooshed them.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I had little control over how and where my model here was going to pose, and so could do nothing about the ragged brown tips of the mowed grass, which detract a bit in my opinion. [Quick aside:<\/strong> I’ve long considered ‘mown’ a word, as in, what grass is after mowing, but my computer’s spellcheck tells me I’m wrong, and Merriam-Webster is taking the same side. However, spellcheck also thinks ‘int’ is a real word, a typo that gets past me every once in a while, so as far as I’m concerned, if you like ‘mown’ better, insert it as necessary. It may be a Northern thing.] The toe-pads tell me this is likely a treefrog, and the immediate area is a big favorite of the Copes grey treefrogs, so that’s the way I’m leaning, especially since the evidence so far is that the species doesn’t develop any distinctive identifying characteristics until a little older than this. My confidence in this ID, however, is less than 50% – but that’s still higher than for anything else at the moment.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I thought we needed a little greenery right now, and lucky for all of us the holiday happened along, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey hey hey, and ‘wahoo’ even! Today is Retro-Amphibian Day, also known by its European moniker, Dig Out An Old Photo ‘Cause Yain’t Postin’ Shit Day, and so, slave to tradition that I am, I present this image from a little over six months ago, saved in the blog folder for this exact purpose. Along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[5360,5361,5362,5359,3475],"class_list":["post-25311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-dig-out-an-old-photo-cause-yaint-postin-shit-day","tag-handy-holidays","tag-here-she-comes-now-singing-mowny-mowny","tag-retro-amphibian-day","tag-unidentified-frog-or-toad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25311","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=25311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}