{"id":25895,"date":"2020-04-30T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=25895"},"modified":"2020-04-30T00:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:10:37","slug":"april-i-banish-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/04\/april-i-banish-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"April, I banish thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/HispeedMantids.jpg\" alt=\"newly hatched blurry mantises\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25896\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Today&#8217;s end-of-month abstract is sponsored by Forgetfulness, where I intended to hit the button that starts recording video and pressed the shutter release instead<strong>;<\/strong> between the low light, the wind, and the activity of the newborn mantids (you couldn&#8217;t tell?) the photo came out a <em>little<\/em> less than ideal. Yet it&#8217;s a perfect illustration of the chaos and energy of&#8230; no, never mind, it&#8217;s not worth the attempt to justify. I fucked up, and it looks weird, and it shouldn&#8217;t be reinterpreted as any kind of commentary, but I got nothing else from this month that works for an abstract, save for some featureless purple skies when I attempted to photograph lightning that was completely obscured by low overcast, and even this has more going for it. Such is life. Roll May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s end-of-month abstract is sponsored by Forgetfulness, where I intended to hit the button that starts recording video and pressed the shutter release instead; between the low light, the wind, and the activity of the newborn mantids (you couldn&#8217;t tell?) the photo came out a little less than ideal. Yet it&#8217;s a perfect illustration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[5491],"class_list":["post-25895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-theres-probably-a-foreign-term-to-describe-it-that-sounds-sophisticated-solely-because-its-foreign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25895","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=25895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}