{"id":19307,"date":"2020-07-27T18:37:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T23:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19307"},"modified":"2020-08-04T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:28:09","slug":"monarch-on-butterfly-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19307","title":{"rendered":"Monarch on Butterfly Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19309\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200727_177379.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19309\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200727_177379-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Monarch on Butterfly Weed\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200727_177379-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200727_177379-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200727_177379-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200727_177379-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200727_177379.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monarch on Butterfly Weed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The monarch (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>) is one of the prettiest butterflies we get. They don&#8217;t show up in nearly as great numbers as do the tiger swallowtails (<em>Papilio glaucus<\/em>) and maybe that&#8217;s what makes their appearance more exciting. This one was on a tender butterfly weed (<em>Asclepias curassavica<\/em>) that it in a container on our back patio. I took this one photo from the lawn side of the patio before trying to get around to the other side. Just as well because it flew off after that and I got no more. I did take some more photos of the tiger swallowtails but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get more of them this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monarch (Danaus plexippus) is one of the prettiest butterflies we get. They don&#8217;t show up in nearly as great numbers as do the tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus) and maybe that&#8217;s what makes their appearance more exciting. This one was on a tender butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) that it in a container on our back &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19307\">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":[176,1752,96,230,878,73,1677,879,229,723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307"}],"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=19307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19311,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307\/revisions\/19311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}