{"id":17593,"date":"2019-08-31T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17593"},"modified":"2019-09-04T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:28:58","slug":"danaus-plexippus-monarch-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17593","title":{"rendered":"<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em> (Monarch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17595\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190831_169297.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17595\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190831_169297-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Danaus plexippus (Monarch)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17595\" data-wp-pid=\"17595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190831_169297-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190831_169297-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190831_169297-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190831_169297-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190831_169297-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190831_169297.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Danaus plexippus<\/em> (Monarch)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The butterfly weed (<em>Asclepias<\/em>) growing in a container outside our back door is very attractive to insects but particularly so to monarchs (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>). Lately we&#8217;ve had two of them on it at once and occasionally three. I got a few pictures of the two today but I think this is a better portrait of this handsome butterfly. I really enjoyed sitting and watching them flutter around the flowers, stopping occasionally at other plants but generally preferring the butterfly weed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The butterfly weed (Asclepias) growing in a container outside our back door is very attractive to insects but particularly so to monarchs (Danaus plexippus). Lately we&#8217;ve had two of them on it at once and occasionally three. I got a few pictures of the two today but I think this is a better portrait of &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17593\">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":[96,1935,1936,73,1677,879,1937,229,58,947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593"}],"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=17593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17596,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions\/17596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}