{"id":306,"date":"2010-07-07T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/07\/07\/100707_walkingstick\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:30:52","slug":"100707_walkingstick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/07\/07\/100707_walkingstick\/","title":{"rendered":"High Wire Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This walking stick was hanging from an electrical line over our B&amp;B at Canyon Lake last week, barely in reach of my zoom lens. I don&#8217;t know what he thought he&#8217;d find up there, and he seemed to make a great target for a hungry bird, but I guess he knew what he was doing. Well, insofar as any insect &#8220;knows&#8221; anything.<\/p>\n<p>This is a vastly different kind of &#8220;stick&#8221; compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/09\/03\/0900903_walkingstick\/\" title=\"Yeah, another bug pic\">the one I photographed last year<\/a>. This one is Mike Tyson, while that one is Michael Cera.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/walkingstick2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Walking Stick on Electrical Line\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This walking stick was hanging from an electrical line over our B&amp;B at Canyon Lake last week, barely in reach of my zoom lens. I don&#8217;t know what he thought he&#8217;d find up there, and he seemed to make a great target for a hungry bird, but I guess he knew what he was doing.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/07\/07\/100707_walkingstick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High Wire Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-texas","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\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8992,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}