{"id":2917,"date":"2011-05-02T20:41:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T01:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2011-05-02T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T01:41:21","slug":"porch-lizards-in-flagrante-delicto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2917","title":{"rendered":"Porch lizards, in flagrante delicto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lizards-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lizards-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lizards-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2918\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what species they are. I just call them porch lizards, because for some reason there are gazillions of them on my deck and porches. This morning I caught two of them in flagrante delicto, making yet more porch lizards for me to catch someday in flagrante delicto, and so on, ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> A reader, Randy from Matthews, North Carolina, writes with an identification on the porch lizards: &#8220;Your porch lizards are called Five Lined Skinks (Eumeces fasciatus). Sometimes their tails are brilliant, metallic blue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, yes, sometimes their tails are an astonishing metallic blue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lizards-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lizards-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lizards-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2918\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what species they are. I just call them porch lizards, because for some reason there are gazillions of them on my deck and porches. This morning I caught two of them in flagrante delicto, making yet more porch lizards for me to catch someday in flagrante delicto, and so on, ad infinitum. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2917\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Porch lizards, in flagrante delicto&#8221;<\/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":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}