{"id":224,"date":"2009-08-08T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T12:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/08\/08\/august_8\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T12:02:58","slug":"august_8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/08\/08\/august_8\/","title":{"rendered":"August 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took apart and reglazed one of the bedroom windows today, so that the glazing compound can cure while we&#8217;re gone and I can paint it upon our return.&nbsp; Imagine my surprise when I lifted the shade and saw what I at first thought was a hummingbird affixed to the outside of the screen.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/DCL_3850-1359.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/DCL_3850-thumb-512x340-1359.jpg\" alt=\"DCL_3850.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"340\" width=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>This is some sort of sphinx moth, probably either a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species?l=3364&amp;chosen_state=25*Massachusetts\">five-spotted hawkmoth<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species?l=3366&amp;chosen_state=25*Massachusetts\">Carolina sphinx<\/a>.&nbsp; These species spend their caterpillar lives as a tomato or tobacco hornworms, respectively, and as such are big crop pests.&nbsp; But it was cool to see this very cooperative adult moth up close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took apart and reglazed one of the bedroom windows today, so that the glazing compound can cure while we&#8217;re gone and I can paint it upon our return.&nbsp; Imagine my surprise when I lifted the shade and saw what I at first thought was a hummingbird affixed to the outside of the screen.This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/08\/08\/august_8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}