{"id":145,"date":"2009-10-17T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/10\/17\/091017_butterfly\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:31:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:31:38","slug":"091017_butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/10\/17\/091017_butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly and Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I failed in my quest to get better photos of <a title=\"From the Gazette archives, all the way back to...yesterday?\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/10\/16\/091016_snappingturtle\/\">the snapping turtle<\/a>, but I was determined to bring <em>something<\/em> back in my camera. When I took this photo, I had no idea it would turn out as beautiful as it did. The wind was blowing and the autofocus on my zoom lens wasn&#8217;t cooperating, so I focused manually, took a breath, and hoped that I captured the scene without too much blur.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-bottom: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - butterfly on yellow flower\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/butterfly2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - butterfly on yellow flower\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">I should try manual focus more often. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>(Who am I kidding? This was pure luck.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I failed in my quest to get better photos of the snapping turtle, but I was determined to bring something back in my camera. When I took this photo, I had no idea it would turn out as beautiful as it did. The wind was blowing and the autofocus on my zoom lens wasn&#8217;t cooperating,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/10\/17\/091017_butterfly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Butterfly and Flower<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-photography","category-wildlife-inverts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8811,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/8811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}