{"id":737,"date":"2009-08-24T20:12:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T02:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2009\/08\/24\/uninvited-guest\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T20:12:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T02:12:29","slug":"uninvited-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Uninvited guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday in one of my murkier aquariums I discovered something that did not belong:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/huey1.jpg\" alt=\"Newt in profile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It appears to be a tiny adult <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_newt\">red-spotted newt<\/a>. \u00a0 There are a few plants in that tank that were floating in an outdoor pond (in North Carolina, I believe) a few months ago, so my guess is that an egg rode in on a leaf, hatched, and the tadpole spent the summer eating baby shrimp and hiding.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this explanation is that\u00a0 these guys are supposed to spend a few years living on land in between egg and adult.\u00a0 So&#8230;that&#8217;s a mystery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/huey2.jpg\" alt=\"newt in portrait\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday in one of my murkier aquariums I discovered something that did not belong: It appears to be a tiny adult red-spotted newt. \u00a0 There are a few plants in that tank that were floating in an outdoor pond (in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=737\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}