{"id":29636,"date":"2021-07-31T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29636"},"modified":"2021-07-31T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T01:55:00","slug":"squeezing-one-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/07\/squeezing-one-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Squeezing one in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I might get a few last photos up from the NY trips, but then when out in the yard watering plants, I saw some potential video opportunities. Some of these clips have been attempted before and never panned out, but this time luck was with me.<\/p>\n<p>Note<strong>:<\/strong> The voiceovers are off the cuff (obviously,) but this also means that I can occasionally forget something, like the fact that the first subject had vanished before I returned with the misting can and the camera (which I mentioned,) so I flushed it out with a quick spray of mist over the area where it had last been seen (which I&#8217;d forgotten to mention.) This was sufficient<strong>;<\/strong> it popped back into sight at the prospect of getting a drink, and so I could get the video I was after.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/581665612\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This puts me one closer to the half-ass goal I&#8217;ve had since the beginning of the year, which is a post for every day. I don&#8217;t know <em>why<\/em> I keep this in the back of my mind, because I <em>know<\/em> it&#8217;s not gonna happen and I&#8217;m already well behind, but the week I was away and didn&#8217;t even have time to line up some posts ahead of time motivated me to &#8216;catch up,&#8217; and so this month contains (as of now) 28 posts &#8211; not bad, really. I&#8217;m curious to see where the year will end up, since my free time tends to fluctuate, but at least I&#8217;m feeling a lot more comfortable with the video editing &#8211; dog knows why.<\/p>\n<p>I also had a goal of a podcast per month, annnddd, we&#8217;re presently at five, so&#8230; yeah. I like to think the videos fill in, and they take the same amount of effort even though they&#8217;re much shorter. I&#8217;ll leave the evaluation of my performance up to you (the nonexistent reader\/viewer\/listener.) But you know, they say money is a great motivator&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21SoftMantis.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese mantis Tenodera sinensis in short depth-of-field\" width=\"750\" height=\"1066\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29641\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I might get a few last photos up from the NY trips, but then when out in the yard watering plants, I saw some potential video opportunities. Some of these clips have been attempted before and never panned out, but this time luck was with me. Note: The voiceovers are off the cuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,3809],"tags":[531,4081,3041,1262,1370,2424,3042,3189],"class_list":["post-29636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-video","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-carolina-mantis","tag-chinese-mantis","tag-crab-spider","tag-misting-bottle","tag-stagmomantis-carolina","tag-tenodera-sinensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29636","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=29636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}