{"id":21830,"date":"2022-05-03T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21830"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:52:54","slug":"nerodia-sipedon-northern-watersnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21830","title":{"rendered":"<em>Nerodia sipedon<\/em> (Northern Watersnake)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21749\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220503_001568.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21749\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220503_001568-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Nerodia sipedon (Northern Watersnake)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220503_001568-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220503_001568-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220503_001568-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220503_001568-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220503_001568.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nerodia sipedon<\/em> (Northern Watersnake)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A little further along Rock Creek from where we saw the azaleas in bloom, we happened to go down onto a stony area along the creek. Cathy was turning over rocks looking for interesting colors (and she&#8217;s hoping to find garnets). She turned over a rock that looked promising, started screaming, and ran past me jumping up and down. There was a snake under the rock, enjoying the residual warmth that the stone had collected during the warmer part of the day. This is a northern watersnake (<em>Nerodia sipedon sipedon<\/em>). Kind of cool, actually, but Cathy wasn&#8217;t convinced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little further along Rock Creek from where we saw the azaleas in bloom, we happened to go down onto a stony area along the creek. Cathy was turning over rocks looking for interesting colors (and she&#8217;s hoping to find garnets). She turned over a rock that looked promising, started screaming, and ran past me &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21830\">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":[3159,3158,3160,1796,2778,3161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830"}],"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=21830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21883,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions\/21883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}