{"id":10741,"date":"2016-07-29T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10741"},"modified":"2016-08-09T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T22:42:56","slug":"pachydiplax-longipennis-blue-dasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10741","title":{"rendered":"<em>Pachydiplax longipennis<\/em> (Blue Dasher)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10743\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_20160729_128844.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10743\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10743\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_20160729_128844-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Pachydiplax longipennis (Blue Dasher)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10743\" data-wp-pid=\"10743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_20160729_128844-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_20160729_128844-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_20160729_128844-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_20160729_128844-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_20160729_128844-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_20160729_128844.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pachydiplax longipennis<\/em> (Blue Dasher)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In yesterday&#8217;s post I talked about going in the woods to the west of my office and that there is a boggy area. There is also a very old road bed that runs through the woods and at the south end of that, just before you reach the stream that runs betweem my building and the rest of the campus, there is a small, shallow pond. It is silting up but there is still a foot or two of water in it much of the time. It rained quite hard last nught so the water was high today (including in the creek, which I had a hard time crossing). I found a reasonably dry place to sit and took pictures of dragonflies for about half an hour. This is a Blue Dasher, <em>Pachydiplax longipennis<\/em> (thanks, Brady, for the identification, these dragonflies are too much for me), and a handsome thing he is, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s post I talked about going in the woods to the west of my office and that there is a boggy area. There is also a very old road bed that runs through the woods and at the south end of that, just before you reach the stream that runs betweem my building and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10748,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}