{"id":5794,"date":"2012-07-06T13:26:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2012-07-06T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:26:32","slug":"sleepy-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5794","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bats sleep in the daytime. Their drowsiness enables me to get close enough to take a picture whereas I have never managed a picture of one flying in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Bats make a wonderful countermeasure to any mosquitoes that will have resulted from the moist spring.<\/p>\n<p>This sleepy bat is probably a male Little Brown Myotis.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5795\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bat120706s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These three loons are included for no better reason than that they swam by before sunrise.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5796\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/loons120702bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bats sleep in the daytime. Their drowsiness enables me to get close enough to take a picture whereas I have never managed a picture of one flying in the evening. Bats make a wonderful countermeasure to any mosquitoes that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5794\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","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=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}