{"id":15499,"date":"2018-09-26T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15499"},"modified":"2018-10-03T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:22:37","slug":"monarch-danaus-plexippus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15499","title":{"rendered":"Monarch (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15501\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180926_158741.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15501\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180926_158741-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Monarch (Danaus plexippus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15501\" data-wp-pid=\"15501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180926_158741-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180926_158741-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180926_158741-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180926_158741-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180926_158741-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180926_158741.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monarch (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had a short break in the usual busyness at work today so was able to get out to take a few pictures. I got a few of a great blue heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) and a belted kingfisher (<em>Megaceryle alcyon<\/em>). I was able to get photos of both of them in flight but they were both pretty far away and they pictures aren&#8217;t all that great.<\/p>\n<p>Before I came back inside I walked past some buddleia growing in a flower bed in the front of my building. There were a few monarch butterflies ((<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>) flitting around on them. Although the garden was in the shade of the building, there was enough light to get some pretty reasonable photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a short break in the usual busyness at work today so was able to get out to take a few pictures. I got a few of a great blue heron (Ardea herodias) and a belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon). I was able to get photos of both of them in flight but they were &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15499\">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":[137,96,230,878,73,121,879,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499"}],"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=15499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15502,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions\/15502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}