{"id":20610,"date":"2017-05-23T06:54:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20610"},"modified":"2017-05-23T06:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:54:04","slug":"tigers-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20610","title":{"rendered":"Tigers mating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When was the last time anyone watched tigers mating in the wilds of British Columbia?<\/p>\n<p>OK, truth in advertising. The tigers in question are beetles: Western Tiger Beetles.<\/p>\n<p>These beach dwellers use their great speed to chase smaller insects and grab them with large, sickle-shaped, mandibles. On\u00a0this occasion, the beetles did seem a bit distracted.<\/p>\n<p>Iridescently coloured Western Tiger Beetles mate on a beach.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20611\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/westerntigerbeetle170522s.jpg?v2\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When was the last time anyone watched tigers mating in the wilds of British Columbia? OK, truth in advertising. The tigers in question are beetles: Western Tiger Beetles. These beach dwellers use their great speed to chase smaller insects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20610\">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-20610","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\/20610","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=20610"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20629,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610\/revisions\/20629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}