{"id":37068,"date":"2024-06-26T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37068"},"modified":"2024-06-25T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:39:33","slug":"just-once-part-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/06\/just-once-part-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Just once, part 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VegetarianGar.jpg\" alt=\"Florida gar Lepisosteus platyrhincus lying in grass alongside drainage channel\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22932\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Today&#8217;s prehistoric installment comes to us from just over 20 years ago, this image being taken on June 4th, 2004 &#8211; I could potentially line these up closer to the anniversaries (not perfectly, since the 4th was a Tuesday this year,)  but I&#8217;m working from a spreadsheet that lists the first post they appeared in and has no image date info, and it&#8217;s not worth the effort. Plus I try to space out the birds and insects and so on.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Florida gar (<em>Lepisosteus platyrhincus<\/em>,) and the only time that I&#8217;ve ever gotten photos of one, though I might have glimpsed said species here and there. This one was sitting on the bank of a drainage channel (closer to being a canal, really) behind where I lived, potentially caught by a fisherman and then discarded, though why they didn&#8217;t simply throw it back into the water escapes me. It was still alive and might potentially have leapt from the water itself, though it was a good two meters laterally and one vertically from the surface, so a damn good leap if so. Either way, I tossed it back into the water to terrify another day.<\/p>\n<p>But this reminds me that it&#8217;s still been far too long since we&#8217;ve been to Florida, and no indications that this will be remedied soon. <em>Sigh<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s prehistoric installment comes to us from just over 20 years ago, this image being taken on June 4th, 2004 &#8211; I could potentially line these up closer to the anniversaries (not perfectly, since the 4th was a Tuesday this year,) but I&#8217;m working from a spreadsheet that lists the first post they appeared in [&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":[95,4621,4622],"class_list":["post-37068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-florida","tag-florida-gar","tag-lepisosteus-platyrhincus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37068","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=37068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}