{"id":13730,"date":"2015-05-24T07:36:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13730"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:36:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:36:57","slug":"summer-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13730","title":{"rendered":"Summer arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You know summer has arrived when you see both a Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly and a Spotted Sandpiper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be mislead by media automatons that parrot a claim about an official start of any season. That claim is nonsense. Summer is a meteorological event, the timing of which changes with location, not some fixed astronomical event. Further, no official ever proclaimed that it begins on the date of the summer solstice&#8212;and why would anyone believe any official (or commentator) who did offer such a silly claim?<\/p>\n<p>A Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly sips nectar from some lilacs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13733\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/westernswallowtailbutterfly150519as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A (female) Spotted Sandpiper patrols the water&#8217;s edge for delectables,\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13732\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/spottedsandpiper150523as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and finds a grub to swallow.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13731\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/spottedsandpiper150523bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You know summer has arrived when you see both a Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly and a Spotted Sandpiper.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be mislead by media automatons that parrot a claim about an official start of any season. That claim is nonsense. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13730\">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":[9,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730","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=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13746,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions\/13746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}