{"id":2385,"date":"2009-03-22T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:23:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:23:32","slug":"rattlesnake-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/03\/22\/rattlesnake-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/ScWqw3wT4yI\/AAAAAAAAAbs\/ye-2zhsnXEc\/s1600-h\/IMG_0598.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/IMG_0598.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315842691757761314\" \/><\/a><br \/>When Mary Ann&#8217;s computer crashed this morning, we decided to go for a drive in the country.  Checking for wildflowers is a good alternative for sulking over a blank screen.  We visited many of our standard locations, and while crossing county dirt roads near Round Mountain, Texas I stopped and backed up.  &#8220;What did you see?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Rattlesnakes having sex.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I pulled up close, and sure enough, those were rattlers.  Not wanting to get out of the car and limited by my cell phone camera, I did the best I could.  The rest of the images are <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.me.com\/hmelton#100108\">uploaded here<\/a>.  Play it in slideshow mode.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mary Ann&#8217;s computer crashed this morning, we decided to go for a drive in the country. Checking for wildflowers is a good alternative for sulking over a blank screen. We visited many of our standard locations, and while crossing county dirt roads near Round Mountain, Texas I stopped and backed up. &#8220;What did you&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/03\/22\/rattlesnake-dance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rattlesnake Dance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[291,292,279],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/IMG_0598.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Ct","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}