{"id":13747,"date":"2015-05-25T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13747"},"modified":"2015-05-25T06:30:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T13:30:53","slug":"butterflying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13747","title":{"rendered":"Butterflying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If a butterfly takes to the air, would it not be\u00a0butterflying?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that is my semantic\u00a0position and I am sticking to it. Especially, as I am seeking to do a better job of\u00a0taking pictures of small flyers in the air (see,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13722\">flying birds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13327\">swallow love &amp;\u00a0war<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>With its proboscis partially unscrolled, a Pale Swallowtail Butterfly flies toward a source of nectar. I was struck by the position of the legs which are tucked up behind its head in a manner I had previously seen with dragonflies.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13748\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/paleswallowtailbutterfly150524s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly is about to visit a lilac.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13749\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/westernswallowtailbutterfly150524as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If a butterfly takes to the air, would it not be\u00a0butterflying? Well, that is my semantic\u00a0position and I am sticking to it. Especially, as I am seeking to do a better job of\u00a0taking pictures of small flyers in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13747\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747","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=13747"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13769,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions\/13769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}