{"id":8332,"date":"2016-04-21T18:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2016-04-21T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T23:48:57","slug":"tiny-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8332","title":{"rendered":"Tiny lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tiny-lives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2413\" height=\"2262\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tiny-lives.jpg\" alt=\"tiny-lives\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tiny-lives.jpg 2413w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tiny-lives-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tiny-lives-768x720.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tiny-lives-1024x960.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Click on image for high-resolution version<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While getting laundry off the line this evening, I noticed this tiny egg shell in the grass. Its diameter is not much greater than the diameter of a pencil. An ant was checking it out. I have no idea what hatched out it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get to travel as much as I might like. I would like to point my camera at grand Ansel-Adams landscapes &#8212; or, even better, at rocky seascapes. But for now I must make do with pointing my camera at smaller and smaller things. A macro lens &#8212; not to mention a microscope &#8212; is a very good thing to have when you&#8217;re stuck in one place. The photo of the egg shell was taken with a Nikon 28-85mm 1:3.5-4.5 lens in macro mode. In macro mode, the lens will focus as close as five or six inches.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the tiny thing is that hatched out of that egg, I hope that it is safe and thriving in the back yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on image for high-resolution version While getting laundry off the line this evening, I noticed this tiny egg shell in the grass. Its diameter is not much greater than the diameter of a pencil. An ant was checking it out. I have no idea what hatched out it. I don&#8217;t get to travel as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tiny lives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","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=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}