{"id":384,"date":"2010-11-01T14:19:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T19:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/11\/01\/101101_alieninsects\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:31:39","slug":"101101_alieninsects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/11\/01\/101101_alieninsects\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sci-Fi World of Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked over to the north pond yesterday, hoping to get some photos of the big crane that&#8217;s been hanging out the past few weeks. He flew away before I could do that, so I sat at the water&#8217;s edge waiting for him to return. He never came back (thanks to you, Mr. Loudmouth Cell Phone Talking Walker), but I found other things to distract me. Such as the secret alien world of flying insects.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the small images for bigger versions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/scifiinsects1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/scifiinsects1-t.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/scifiinsects2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/scifiinsects2-t.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/scifiinsects3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/scifiinsects3-t.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/scifiinsects4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/scifiinsects4-t.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked over to the north pond yesterday, hoping to get some photos of the big crane that&#8217;s been hanging out the past few weeks. He flew away before I could do that, so I sat at the water&#8217;s edge waiting for him to return. He never came back (thanks to you, Mr. Loudmouth Cell&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/11\/01\/101101_alieninsects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sci-Fi World of Insects<\/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-384","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\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9087,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/9087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}