{"id":10807,"date":"2014-06-05T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T17:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2014-06-05T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T19:28:25","slug":"a-passion-of-toads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10807","title":{"rendered":"A passion of toads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doug Thorburn writes about his Tuesday pictures of Western Toads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hi Alistair, thought you\u00a0might be interested and\/or horrified by these scenes of toad romance. At first I was hard pressed to determine where one toad started and the other ended. There also seems to be a bit of jelly covered eggs to add an additional fecundity to the scene. Spring is indeed in the air, and apparently the water.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10810\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/westerntoad140603asDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10809\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/westerntoad140603bsDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10808\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/westerntoad140603csDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Doug Thorburn&#8217;s images used with permission<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Doug Thorburn writes about his Tuesday pictures of Western Toads: Hi Alistair, thought you\u00a0might be interested and\/or horrified by these scenes of toad romance. At first I was hard pressed to determine where one toad started and the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10807\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herptiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10813,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions\/10813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}