{"id":34526,"date":"2023-05-31T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=34526"},"modified":"2023-05-30T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T23:13:08","slug":"some-pun-with-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/05\/some-pun-with-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Some pun with &#8220;May&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know the drill, or at least you would if you were a regular reader that was not strictly imaginary<strong>:<\/strong> it&#8217;s the last day of the month and time for the end of the month abstract, or my own esoteric interpretation of that term. Which looks like this<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AbstractGumLeaves.jpg\" alt=\"backlit overlapping leaves of American sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua\" width=\"750\" height=\"545\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34527\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The light was right for these American sweetgum (<em>Liquidambar styraciflua<\/em>) leaves, and the overlapping textures and shades actually made them a bit fartistic. What a deal!<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all that we have for the month&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AbstractPanDucks.jpg\" alt=\"male and female mallards Anas platyrhynchos against panning blur\" width=\"750\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34528\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>When a pair of mallards (<em>Anas platyrhynchos<\/em>) took off and did a quick circuit right near me, I tracked them in flight, with the background blurring a bit from the camera motion. Actually, there were three ducks, another male in there as well, but he was lagging far behind and, while I got him in the frame, it was so wide that it didn&#8217;t work well for the blog usage. He eventually peeled off and went in another direction, realizing he was a third wheel I suppose, or heading off to get Good &#038; Plentys. You know how ducks are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the drill, or at least you would if you were a regular reader that was not strictly imaginary: it&#8217;s the last day of the month and time for the end of the month abstract, or my own esoteric interpretation of that term. Which looks like this: The light was right for these American [&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":[1529,3594,2701,6837,3236,2700,3445,3444],"class_list":["post-34526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-american-sweetgum","tag-anas-platyrhynchos","tag-backlighting","tag-liquidambar-styraciflua","tag-mallard","tag-motion-blur","tag-panning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526","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=34526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}