{"id":39554,"date":"2013-08-16T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=39554"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:41:18","slug":"morning-eye-candy-airborne-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-airborne-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Airborne Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m on a certified dragonfly kick after perusing <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/08\/wildlife\/native-fauna-rapidly-discovers-the-native-plant-garden\/\">Thomas Andres&#8217; collection of bug shots<\/a> from earlier this week. Ivo follows up with what may be the cutest representative of the Odonata class taking a breather on a leaf in the <a title=\"Ladies' Border\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/ladies-border\/\">Ladies&#8217; Border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"39555\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-airborne-ace\/attachment\/mec-dragonfly\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1588\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;thebluroffice&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1375804051&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dragonfly\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly-300x190.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly-1024x650.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39555\" alt=\"Dragonfly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly-1024x650.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic of bug appreciation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":39555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[3487,2537,1082,1512,4640,4619],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Dragonfly.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-ahY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39558,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39554\/revisions\/39558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}