{"id":7799,"date":"2012-05-01T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2012-05-01T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:23:04","slug":"pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2012\/05\/pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ProudMama.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ProudMama\" width=\"500\" height=\"622\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ProudMama.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ProudMama-400x497.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Yes, I <em>know<\/em> this appears to be a crass copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cuteoverload.com\/2008\/04\/29\/though-technica\/\" target=\"_blank\">pose seen here<\/a>, but unless that otter is actually eating a vole, I&#8217;d hazard that the evidence leans towards coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>I had earlier spotted the same species jumping spider as this one, atop a log and showing off its vivid rust-colored abdomen, but it was so shy that I never got remotely close enough to photograph &#8211; the same can be said for some vivid green tiger beetles. But this one held still quite cooperatively, and it wasn&#8217;t until I was looking at the magnified image in the viewfinder that I tumbled to why. Jumping spiders are just like kids in this regard<strong>:<\/strong> give them a treat and they&#8217;ll cooperate for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I went down to the river specifically to stage a shot for a post, which will be coming shortly, but got several images unrelated to that topic, so there&#8217;s at least one other post coming from the trip too. And if you think this one&#8217;s creepy, you ain&#8217;t seen nothing yet. This one&#8217;s <em>cute<\/em> in comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know this appears to be a crass copy of the pose seen here, but unless that otter is actually eating a vole, I&#8217;d hazard that the evidence leans towards coincidence. I had earlier spotted the same species jumping spider as this one, atop a log and showing off its vivid rust-colored abdomen, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","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=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}