{"id":377,"date":"2008-06-29T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T22:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/06\/nice_picture\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:29:05","slug":"nice_picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/06\/nice_picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was leaving the house today and there was a really neat butterfly on my purple cone flowers. In fact there were two of them. So I went back in the house and got the <a title=\"New Camera\" href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/06\/new_camera\/\">new camera<\/a>, set it to macro, and tried it out. I don&#8217;t think the butterflies liked the infrared autofocus, but they hung around long enough for me to get this one.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2008\/butterfly.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2008\/butterfly-thumb-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"butterfly.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It seems to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Painted_Lady\">American painted lady<\/a>, <em>Vanessa virginiensis<\/em>, in the family of brushfooted butterflies. It looks very different on top than on the underside of its wings which you see here.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the picture so much that I cropped it and added it to my banner pictures at the top of the page. The pattern of the red-tipped flower spines is pretty dramatic up close along with the butterfly&#8217;s pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was leaving the house today and there was a really neat butterfly on my purple cone flowers. In fact there were two of them. So I went back in the house and got the new camera, set it to macro, and tried it out. I don&#8217;t think the butterflies liked the infrared autofocus, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/06\/nice_picture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nice Picture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}