{"id":12840,"date":"2017-08-22T13:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2017-08-23T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:06:46","slug":"plathemis-lydia-common-whitetail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12840","title":{"rendered":"<em>Plathemis lydia<\/em> (Common Whitetail)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12842\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170822_145975.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12842\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170822_145975-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Plathemis lydia (Common Whitetail)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12842\" data-wp-pid=\"12842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170822_145975-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170822_145975-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170822_145975-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170822_145975-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170822_145975-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170822_145975.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Plathemis lydia<\/em> (Common Whitetail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went outside a little before 1:00 PM today and it was quite warm and very muggy. I took a few pictures of wildflowers but it looked like I was not going to get any insect pictures. There were plenty about but they were all moving quite a lot, which makes it hard. I also didn&#8217;t feel like hanging out in the hot sun any longer than necessary. As I was leaving, this female common whitetail (<em>Plathemis lydia<\/em>) landed on the ragweed just ahead of me. I got a few pictures from where I was and then <em>very slowly<\/em> moved closer until I was able to get this one and a few like it before she flew away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went outside a little before 1:00 PM today and it was quite warm and very muggy. I took a few pictures of wildflowers but it looked like I was not going to get any insect pictures. There were plenty about but they were all moving quite a lot, which makes it hard. I also &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12840\">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":[187,121,188,189,190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840"}],"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=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12843,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions\/12843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}