{"id":31216,"date":"2022-02-12T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=31216"},"modified":"2022-02-12T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T01:18:09","slug":"first-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/02\/first-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"First of the year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FebruaryGreenhouseFrog.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile green treefrog Hyla cinerea venturing out in the greenhouse\" width=\"750\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31217\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Well, okay, no, this doesn&#8217;t actually count. I guess I need more qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long had a standard that spring has finally arrived when I saw the first treefrogs, as I have tonight, but we&#8217;re not going to count this one. First off, it&#8217;s in the greenhouse, which is of course remaining unnaturally warmer than the surrounding climate, and while it got up to a lovely 21&#176;c today (and thus much warmer in the greenhouse, peaking around 33&#176;c therein,) it&#8217;s not sustaining that, nor has it been that warm long enough to flush the winterized frogs out of hideouts. Secondly, if we <em>are<\/em> going to count the greenhouse, I&#8217;m six weeks behind anyway<strong>;<\/strong> we had a run of warmer weather right as the new year was coming in, and I could easily have done the last treefrog of 2021, as well as the first of 2022, less than a minute apart, since a couple were active inside. I had unintentionally left the door cracked open that evening, so a few may have entered from outside, and I left it cracked for the next night or two so they could leave again if they so desired. I&#8217;d wondered if any remained, tucking themselves into the soil or crevices of the potted plants, and this one answered that &#8211; it&#8217;s been too cold to know before this. And yes, I&#8217;d purposefully checked, knowing the temperatures today might have brought them out in there tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s Darwin Day, and I&#8217;d like to tie this together somehow, but don&#8217;t really have a way without stretching. I&#8217;ve had the reminder popping up for the last week, without providing any inspiration at all for a post<strong>;<\/strong> probably should have just dug out <em>Origin of Species<\/em> and skimmed for some ideas. Ah well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, okay, no, this doesn&#8217;t actually count. I guess I need more qualifiers. I&#8217;ve long had a standard that spring has finally arrived when I saw the first treefrogs, as I have tonight, but we&#8217;re not going to count this one. First off, it&#8217;s in the greenhouse, which is of course remaining unnaturally warmer than [&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],"tags":[2505,5214,2506,3771],"class_list":["post-31216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-green-treefrog","tag-greenhouse","tag-hyla-cinerea","tag-signs-of-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31216","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=31216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}