{"id":34877,"date":"2023-07-03T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=34877"},"modified":"2023-07-03T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:13:52","slug":"just-because-part-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/07\/just-because-part-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because, part 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/YoshinoAnole.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis peering down from upper branch of Yoshino cherry tree\" width=\"750\" height=\"1002\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34878\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Just a quick one from today, finding a Carolina anole (<em>Anolis carolinensis<\/em>) stretched out on an upper branch of the Yoshino cherry tree, the same one that I&#8217;ve been trying to protect from the Japanese beetles &#8211; it would be nice if this guy was eating those, but I&#8217;m not sure anything does. After finding the lizard there, a bit higher than I stand myself, I misted the leaves nearby because it&#8217;s been hot as shit here recently and I thought it might like a drink<strong>;<\/strong> my reward was this expressive pose, though at the same time the reptile&#8217;s skin darkened to a medium greenish-brown from the pale green that it was when discovered. What this means, I do not know, but I suspect we might be married now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one from today, finding a Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) stretched out on an upper branch of the Yoshino cherry tree, the same one that I&#8217;ve been trying to protect from the Japanese beetles &#8211; it would be nice if this guy was eating those, but I&#8217;m not sure anything does. After finding [&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":[531,4081,6012],"class_list":["post-34877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-yoshino-cherry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34877","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=34877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}