{"id":8640,"date":"2013-08-27T07:25:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2013-08-27T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:48:29","slug":"a-three-frog-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8640","title":{"rendered":"A three-frog summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This has been a three-frog summer. Indeed, as far as I have been able to tell, this region has only three distinct species of frogs: Columbia Spotted Frog, Western Toad, Pacific Tree Frog. (A toad is actually a frog, but a particularly warty one.)<\/p>\n<p>While pictures of the first two species did appear earlier, to enable all three to appear together, one shot of each of the first two is included along with a link to its posting.<\/p>\n<p>First to be seen was the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8084\">Columbia Spotted Frog<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/columbiaspottedfrog130610bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second, was the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8483\">Western Toad<\/a>&#8212;or at least the toadlet&#8212;which was seen in great profusion.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/toad130727as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Pacific Tree Frog, which despite its name, breeds in ponds.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8646\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pacifictreefrog130825s2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This has been a three-frog summer. Indeed, as far as I have been able to tell, this region has only three distinct species of frogs: Columbia Spotted Frog, Western Toad, Pacific Tree Frog. (A toad is actually a frog, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8640\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","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\/8640","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=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8651,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/8651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}