{"id":12399,"date":"2017-06-04T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12399"},"modified":"2017-06-07T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:47:00","slug":"skipper-on-coreopsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12399","title":{"rendered":"Skipper on Coreopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12401\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170604_142346.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12401\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170604_142346-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Skipper on Coreopsis\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12401\" data-wp-pid=\"12401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170604_142346-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170604_142346-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170604_142346-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170604_142346-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170604_142346-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170604_142346.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skipper on Coreopsis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I sat on the patio for a while this afternoon, just enjoying being in the sun. It was actually a little hot for my taste, but still nice for all of that. Also, the light is better for macro photography in the sun, when you want as much depth of field and as fast a shutter speed as possible. I was watching the insects around the potted flowers on the patio and got a few pictures of this skipper (family Hesperiidae) on a coreopsis (a.k.a. tickseed) flower. The insects aren&#8217;t around it the huge numbers we&#8217;ll have in a few weeks, particularly when the mountain mint (<em>Pycnanthemum muticum<\/em>) starts to bloom, but they are certainly here and I really enjoy them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat on the patio for a while this afternoon, just enjoying being in the sun. It was actually a little hot for my taste, but still nice for all of that. Also, the light is better for macro photography in the sun, when you want as much depth of field and as fast a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12399\">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":[4,3],"tags":[87,88,73,89,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399"}],"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=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12403,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions\/12403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}