{"id":24710,"date":"2025-09-22T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24710"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:55:30","slug":"monarch-danaus-plexippus-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24710","title":{"rendered":"Monarch (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24712\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250922_026484.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24712\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250922_026484-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Monarch (Danaus plexippus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250922_026484-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250922_026484-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250922_026484-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250922_026484-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250922_026484.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monarch (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This monarch (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>) was in our front yard this afternoon, although I had a hard time getting a good photo of it. When it was in the sun, where it would have looked better, it only landed for a moment and even in the shade, as shown here on some blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) in only landed briefly. I was able to squeeze out two or three shots and this is the best of them.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy&#8217;s brothers both left today, after visiting for their mom&#8217;s birthday. We had a nice visit with them and they all enjoyed talking about old times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This monarch (Danaus plexippus) was in our front yard this afternoon, although I had a hard time getting a good photo of it. When it was in the sun, where it would have looked better, it only landed for a moment and even in the shade, as shown here on some blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24710\">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":[96,230,878,1677,879,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710"}],"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=24710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24713,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions\/24713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}