{"id":8003,"date":"2012-08-18T20:50:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=8003"},"modified":"2020-08-31T12:44:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:44:48","slug":"kansas-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/kansas-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812Aspidoscelis.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that Death Valley days are over in Kansas, I figured that I could probably survive a trip to the botanical garden this afternoon. Here are a few of the pictures I snapped there.<\/p>\n<p>Usually lizards hide before I can zoom in on them, but this one (a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aspidoscelis_sexlineata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six-lined racerunner<\/a>, I think) was too intent on his lunch to pay attention to me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812hummingbird01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hummingbird was in the area for maybe 45 seconds and never came closer than 20 feet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812lotus.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812dragonfly02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812ferocactus02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812lycoris01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812piano.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I passed this on the way to the garden. I doubt that the upright is going to find a home. It would cost more to refurbish than it&#8217;s worth, and there is little demand even for pianos in good shape these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Death Valley days are over in Kansas, I figured that I could probably survive a trip to the botanical garden this afternoon. Here are a few of the pictures I snapped there. Usually lizards hide before I can zoom in on them, but this one (a six-lined racerunner, I think) was too intent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/kansas-wildlife\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kansas wildlife&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[101,673],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-gallery","tag-botanica","tag-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-255","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97977,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions\/97977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}