{"id":1714,"date":"2013-06-13T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2013-06-13T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:42:08","slug":"wait-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"Wait Five Minutes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was one of those days where the old joke about New England weather&#8230; if you don&#8217;t like the weather, wait five minutes it will change&#8230; seemed to be true.<\/p>\n<p>It was mostly cloudy and breezy. The temperature was in the low 60&#8217;s. Thus, while it was mostly gray, the sun would make brief appearances at random intervals. There were also brief sprinkles of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Mid-afternoon, I decided to head down back to &#8220;our&#8221; beaver swamp just to see what was around. For the first thirty minutes I saw no odes just\u00a0 mosquitoes&#8230; I almost headed back to the house.<\/p>\n<p>Then the magic happened. First one dragonfly appeared&#8230; then another&#8230; and another. There were not many individuals. I saw maybe a dozen total over the next hour or so. Many were teneral&#8230; shiny wings and weak flight. I saw no damselflies&#8230; too windy.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the &#8220;keepers&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=196 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was one of those days where the old joke about New England weather&#8230; if you don&#8217;t like the weather, wait five minutes it will change&#8230; seemed to be true. It was mostly cloudy and breezy. The temperature was in the low 60&#8217;s. Thus, while it was mostly gray, the sun would make brief appearances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}