{"id":19630,"date":"2020-10-06T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19630"},"modified":"2020-10-13T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:32:01","slug":"monarch-butterfly-danaus-plexippus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19630","title":{"rendered":"Monarch Butterfly (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19632\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201006_178980.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19632\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201006_178980-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201006_178980-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201006_178980-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201006_178980-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201006_178980-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201006_178980.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monarch Butterfly (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The late afternoon sun was shining on the hawthorn berries and I took some pictures of them before spotting this monarch butterfly (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>) flitting around the tall verbena (<em>Verbena bonariensis<\/em>). She flew off for a while but I waited and she came back and I was able to get some pretty nice photos. I figured I can get pictures of the hawthorn again tomorrow. The butterflies are getting to be fewer and fewer, so I want to capture them while I can. We&#8217;ve had a pretty steady presence of monarchs this summer, although rarely more than one at a time. This one is in particularly fine shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late afternoon sun was shining on the hawthorn berries and I took some pictures of them before spotting this monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) flitting around the tall verbena (Verbena bonariensis). She flew off for a while but I waited and she came back and I was able to get some pretty nice photos. I &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19630\">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":[96,230,878,73,1677,879,229,2631,182,2549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630"}],"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=19630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19634,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions\/19634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}