{"id":28223,"date":"2021-02-21T23:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T04:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=28223"},"modified":"2021-02-21T23:51:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T04:51:20","slug":"just-because-part-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/02\/just-because-part-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because, part 39"},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew it was supposed to be sunny today, and so I held off in the thought that maybe I’d get out to shoot something, but the temperature remained quite low and I felt ratty all day, so nothing new right now. Yet, I did finish a minor project (which will appear here eventually, because [spoiler alert] it’s a podcast,) so this is in recognition of that. Don’t ask me how, or what that means, just go with it.<\/p>\n

I’d run across this one in search of something else, and liked it, so it became a winter ‘Just because.’<\/p>\n

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If this looks familiar, that’s because it’s Durwood<\/a>;<\/strong> if it doesn’t, then it obviously isn’t. But either way, ya gotta admit it’s a slick perspective. Juvenile black rat snakes\/eastern rat snakes (Pantherophis alleghaniensis<\/em>) look markedly different from adults, and this one was quite small – as I remarked back when I first found it<\/a>, I initially mistook it for a length of bicycle chain. And we can see how well the pattern actually works in keeping them unobtrusive, at least while climbing trees – less so when crossing a hospital surgery floor. Not that this happens often, which is good, because that’s evolutionarily negative, as no one says;<\/strong> I think I just coined a new word. Make sure you give me credit every time you use it, you hear?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew it was supposed to be sunny today, and so I held off in the thought that maybe I’d get out to shoot something, but the temperature remained quite low and I felt ratty all day, so nothing new right now. Yet, I did finish a minor project (which will appear here eventually, because […]<\/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":[288,5960,5907,5596,3196,5595],"class_list":["post-28223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-black-rat-snake","tag-denelsbeckisms","tag-durwood","tag-eastern-rat-snake","tag-juvenile","tag-pantherophis-alleghaniensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28223","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=28223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}