{"id":953,"date":"2014-10-20T18:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=953"},"modified":"2014-10-20T18:55:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T08:55:37","slug":"953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite “Night of the Iguana”…"},"content":{"rendered":"

While out in the back yard tonight I was fortunate to see a Blue Tongue Lizard. I’d just walked up the path towards the back half of the block when I turned around to see Tigga<\/a> wandering up the path behind me in her usual “he needs to be supervised<\/em>” manner. Then I noticed her stop with that look of “well, there’s something I haven’t seen before<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

I followed her line of sight and realised I’d just walked past a Blue Tongue Lizard. It was probably a teenager, as it was barely three centimetres in diameter and less than 30cm in total length. It was also moulting, and trying to catch a last bit of the evening sun.<\/p>\n

I was amused to watch her approach it and then jump back about a metre after it hissed at her and poked out its big blue tongue! I had hopes of ducking back inside to grab the a camera, but I’d not moved more than about 3 metres before it took shelter under the old cubby that’s in the back yard.<\/p>\n

Clearly I will have to keep my eyes open for another opportunity. I have to say I’ve not seen one up close out here for a number of years, and I’ve certainly not seen evidence of one on the property since I bought it five years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While out in the back yard tonight I was fortunate to see a Blue Tongue Lizard. I’d just walked up the path towards the back half of the block when I turned around to see Tigga wandering up the path behind me in her usual “he needs to be supervised” manner. Then I noticed her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furbag","category-general","category-house","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}