{"id":20373,"date":"2021-05-15T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2021-05-28T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:32:35","slug":"cicada-on-blue-eyed-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20373","title":{"rendered":"Cicada on Blue-eyed Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20375\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_20210515_182526.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20375\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_20210515_182526-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada on Blue-eyed Grass\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_20210515_182526-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_20210515_182526-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_20210515_182526-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_20210515_182526-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_20210515_182526.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cicada on Blue-eyed Grass<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cicadas (<em>Magicicada<\/em> species) of Brood X are beginning to emerge from their 17-year subterranean sojourn. Interestingly, this one, near the base of a large oak tree, is one of only a few at this site. Another oak tree at the other end of the yard is absolutely covered with them. I suspect I&#8217;ll have a few more photos before their visit comes to an end but I thought for at least one photo I&#8217;d include some flowers to brighten what is otherwise a sort of ugly bug. Blue-eyed grass (<em>Sisyrinchium angustifolium<\/em>) is something of a weed around our yard, but it&#8217;s at least a pretty weed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cicadas (Magicicada species) of Brood X are beginning to emerge from their 17-year subterranean sojourn. Interestingly, this one, near the base of a large oak tree, is one of only a few at this site. Another oak tree at the other end of the yard is absolutely covered with them. I suspect I&#8217;ll have &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20373\">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":[2413,2205,2806,2804,310,1677,2807,2805,2414,2415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373"}],"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=20373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20376,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions\/20376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}