{"id":6144,"date":"2018-09-18T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/second-spring-butterfly\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T23:59:25","slug":"second-spring-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/second-spring-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Spring Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/red-bird-black-butterfly.jpg' title='Second Spring Butterfly'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/red-bird-black-butterfly.jpg' alt='Second Spring Butterfly' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year since we have been here in Arizona we have experienced what the locals (which includes us now) call &#8220;second spring.&#8221; Around the official end of summer (autumnal equinox) the temperatures become very spring-like and the flora and fauna react accordingly. Flowers open and butterflies and hummingbirds do their thing.<\/p>\n<p>Late this afternoon, I saw a yellow-spotted black butterfly browsing the Red Bird of Paradise shrubs in the courtyard. I was in the great room at the time, so I grabbed my camera and headed out the front door. Luckily, the butterfly kept on doing what it was doing when I first saw it. I snapped a bunch of pictures of which this was probably the best. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year since we have been here in Arizona we have experienced what the locals (which includes us now) call &#8220;second spring.&#8221; Around the official end&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}