{"id":845,"date":"2010-05-24T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=845"},"modified":"2010-05-24T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:44:16","slug":"a-brief-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2010\/05\/a-brief-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Hardcore.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hardcore\" width=\"400\" height=\"610\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-846\" \/>The other day I chased a pair of Southeastern Five-lined Skinks as they ventured around the opening of a hollow tree outside my place. I was hoping to catch some feeding behavior, but it was not to be.<\/p>\n<p>However, on examining the photographs in detail after unloading, I noticed that the breeding male (distinguished by his bright red head) had done exactly what I have, far too many times when walking through the forest. I have to give him a bit of credit, though &#8211; he appears to be dealing with it a lot better than I ever do. Despite having gotten (mostly) over my phobia of spiders over the years, I can&#8217;t walk through a web and not flinch. I certainly can&#8217;t go without peeling the damn thing off, especially if it&#8217;s as laden with past meals as this one. But to Joe Cool here, it ain&#8217;t no thang.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Lizard Cool, that is. I&#8217;ll have to work on it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I chased a pair of Southeastern Five-lined Skinks as they ventured around the opening of a hollow tree outside my place. I was hoping to catch some feeding behavior, but it was not to be. However, on examining the photographs in detail after unloading, I noticed that the breeding male (distinguished by [&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":[144,143],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo","tag-eumeces-inexpectatus","tag-southeastern-five-lined-skink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}