{"id":34103,"date":"2023-03-31T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=34103"},"modified":"2023-03-30T03:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T07:35:39","slug":"shipping-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/03\/shipping-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, another month is <em>kaput<\/em>, and that means a photo dedicated solely to this, because it&#8217;s a tradition on the blog now and we all know how important such things are. That&#8217;s right, not at all even slightly a little bit. But we&#8217;re still gonna do it, as if extra-terrestrials aren&#8217;t watching us and shaking their cephalothoraxes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/0323Abs.jpg\" alt=\"blurred heron over twilight reflections on lake\" width=\"750\" height=\"940\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34104\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Yeah, we&#8217;ve had similar before, but we&#8217;re gonna keep doing it until we get it right. This does at least come from this month, out on the lake because that&#8217;s largely the only place I&#8217;ve been to take photos, save the airshow. After the sun set, a lone great blue heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) cruised low over the water in the dimming light, and I panned with it to fire off a few frames. This is &#8220;creatively&#8221; cropped to camouflage the fact that the original was quite centered, which I completely ruined if you were actually reading this. It&#8217;s easy to keep secrets on a blog no one ever visits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, another month is kaput, and that means a photo dedicated solely to this, because it&#8217;s a tradition on the blog now and we all know how important such things are. That&#8217;s right, not at all even slightly a little bit. But we&#8217;re still gonna do it, as if extra-terrestrials aren&#8217;t watching us and shaking [&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":[1529,451,69,7169,3798,3444,2779],"class_list":["post-34103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-ardea-herodias","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-hoffas-in-des-moines","tag-jordan-lake","tag-panning","tag-twilight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34103","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=34103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}