{"id":19690,"date":"2020-10-18T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19690"},"modified":"2020-10-29T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T17:53:29","slug":"smartweed-and-mosquito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19690","title":{"rendered":"Smartweed and Mosquito"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19692\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201018_179284.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19692\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201018_179284-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Pennsylvania smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) and Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201018_179284-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201018_179284-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201018_179284-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201018_179284-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201018_179284.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pennsylvania smartweed (<em>Persicaria pensylvanica<\/em>) and Asian Tiger Mosquito (<em>Aedes albopictus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I walked to the park today and I took a few pictures. This is a very common weed in our area, called Pennsylvania smartweed (<em>Persicaria pensylvanica<\/em>). I got a bonus in this photograph, of an Asian tiger mosquito (<em>Aedes albopictus<\/em>). I&#8217;m not really a big fan of either, I&#8217; afraid. Weeds are a common problem in our garden and this one shows up without fail. And I don&#8217;t know many fans of mosquitoes of any kind. Nevertheless, they both have a sort of beauty that cannot be denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I walked to the park today and I took a few pictures. This is a very common weed in our area, called Pennsylvania smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica). I got a bonus in this photograph, of an Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). I&#8217;m not really a big fan of either, I&#8217; afraid. Weeds are a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19690\">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":[2644,2645,2647,1230,2646,2642,1021,2641,2643],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690"}],"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=19690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19693,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690\/revisions\/19693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}