{"id":644,"date":"2009-01-03T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2009-01-03T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T23:07:38","slug":"butterflies-and-chameleons-geckos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies and Chameleons (Geckos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the pool John spotted a tiny chameleon (gecko).  It was only a little over an inch and a half long even with its long tail.  The tiny lizard jumped to his leg and when I held out my finger, he was willing to jump aboard and stay for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/images\/butterfly2.jpg\" alt=\"butterfly on my finger\" \/><br \/>\nIt reminded me of July 2007 when a butterfly fell in love with me.  A monarch stayed with me for more than an hour.  It sat on my shoulder, my finger, and in my hair.  I walked around with it, went inside our trailer, and it wouldn&#8217;t leave me. You can see it on my finger in the photo above.<\/p>\n<p>It was a surreal feeling.  The gecko was that way today.  I walked around with this tiny, normally very shy critter enjoying the ride. Must be my perfume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the pool John spotted a tiny chameleon (gecko). It was only a little over an inch and a half long even with its long tail. The tiny lizard jumped to his leg and when I held out my finger, he was willing to jump aboard and stay for quite a while. It reminded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-12-christmas-and-january-in-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}