{"id":297,"date":"2010-08-29T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-08-29T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T15:56:24","slug":"preying-mantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Praying Mantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I spent the late afternoon doing yard work; one of the chores was &#8220;weed whacking&#8221;\u00a0the overgrowth in a bed that Joan had decided not to use this year. You can only imaging how high the weeds were after a summer of utter neglect!<\/p>\n<p>After I finished this chore, I headed into the house to work on getting dinner ready. A few minutes later Joan announced that she had seen a praying mantis in the bed where I had just cut down the weeds.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, dinner preparations were put on hold as I grabbed the camera (with the 90 mm macro lens) and headed back out to the yard&#8230; now you know what my priorities are!<\/p>\n<p>As I was photographing one individual, Joan spotted a second individual a few feet away. Both were very cooperative, staying mostly still and posing politely!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the resulting frames:<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=26]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I spent the late afternoon doing yard work; one of the chores was &#8220;weed whacking&#8221;\u00a0the overgrowth in a bed that Joan had decided not to use this year. You can only imaging how high the weeds were after a summer of utter neglect! After I finished this chore, I headed into the house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-insects","category-the-yard","tag-praying-mantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}