{"id":428,"date":"2024-04-09T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-05-23T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T01:04:04","slug":"back-yard-garter-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/2024\/04\/09\/back-yard-garter-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"back yard garter snake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year I was charmed by several very small garter snakes in our back yard. This year, I spotted this one &#8212; not so small! I make this one out to be a solid two feet, so likely an adult &#8212; either last year&#8217;s mom, or one of last year&#8217;s babies, grown up! It&#8217;s a beautiful warm day &#8212; mid-70s &#8212; and this one was enjoying the sun until I interrupted with my blundering about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240409_184516045-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240409_184516045-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240409_184516045-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240409_184516045-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240409_184516045.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I was charmed by several very small garter snakes in our back yard. This year, I spotted this one &#8212; not so small! I make this one out to be a solid two feet, so likely an adult &#8212; either last year&#8217;s mom, or one of last year&#8217;s babies, grown up! It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[87,86],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-garter-snakes","tag-native-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}