{"id":415,"date":"2006-07-20T17:51:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=415"},"modified":"2011-11-26T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T18:56:54","slug":"there-be-dragons-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"There be dragons about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/dragonfly0718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>This beastie has made my yard his home this year, and has chased down and eaten a lot of bugs in return. I found him perched on my clothesline pole yesterday. Oh, okay..it&#8217;s more of a motorcycle parts line than a clothesline, but you get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a lot of enormous dragonflies buzzing about lately. This is also a good time for damselflies&#8230;if you can find any wetland areas in this drought, poke around in the weeds and you&#8217;ll find thousands of little dragonflies and damselflies in an assortment of colors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This beastie has made my yard his home this year, and has chased down and eaten a lot of bugs in return. I found him perched on my clothesline pole yesterday. Oh, okay..it&#8217;s more of a motorcycle parts line than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=415\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}