{"id":28571,"date":"2021-04-08T05:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=28571"},"modified":"2021-04-08T03:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:59:40","slug":"profiles-of-nature-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/04\/profiles-of-nature-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles of Nature 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0408Balthazaar.jpg\" alt=\"western lowland gorilla Gorilla gorilla gorilla Balthazaar pondering the meaning of hay\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28572\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Our nature photography model this week is Balthazaar, also a drama coach, philosopher, father, and nativity display evaluator, here obviously disappointed at this disorganized mess. Balthazaar has been in the biz for over a decade and is highly sought-after by discerning art directors because of his chiseled features and extensive repertoire of legume trivia, which makes more sense if you&#8217;re familiar with art directors. He used to be incredibly shy, but got past this on the kindly advice of his ninth-grade teacher, who said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t.&#8221; [Amusingly, she had actually said, &#8220;Dolt,&#8221; which wasn&#8217;t discovered for years, but upon finally finding this out, Balthazaar thanked her anyway and then reported her to the school board for calling names.] Balthazaar collects the paper floor mats that mechanics put in your car, and often creates minor issues with his vehicle just to obtain more<strong>;<\/strong> as you might imagine, this has cost him quite a lot of money and has resulted in him having the transmission replaced seven times. Not that we&#8217;re saying anything. At some point in the future he would like to run for office because he really hates to see bare, uncluttered medians. He once said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a fine line between a reprimand and jail.&#8221; Balthazaar&#8217;s preferred dipthong is a&#650;.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to join us next week if you never leave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our nature photography model this week is Balthazaar, also a drama coach, philosopher, father, and nativity display evaluator, here obviously disappointed at this disorganized mess. Balthazaar has been in the biz for over a decade and is highly sought-after by discerning art directors because of his chiseled features and extensive repertoire of legume trivia, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[6062,6061,6063,6060],"class_list":["post-28571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo","tag-balthazaar","tag-gorilla-gorilla-gorilla","tag-hey-mine-too","tag-western-lowland-gorilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28571","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=28571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}