{"id":1000,"date":"2011-01-30T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-01-30T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T01:57:00","slug":"butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally made it to the Tropical Butterfly House<\/a><\/strong> at Pacific Science Center<\/a><\/strong> (PSC); it opened in 1998. I guess one reason I put off visiting for so long is because, as previously noted<\/a><\/strong>, I have ambivalent feelings about animals in captivity. My curiosity about the Butterfly House overcame any reservations I had, especially after reading about it on the PSC Web site. <\/p>\n

I knew the butterflies would be amazing but for some silly reason, I didn’t expect the gorgeous plants.
\n\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a><\/p>\n

If you go, tread very<\/em> carefully; butterflies often rest on the walking path.
\n\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a><\/p>\n

And sometimes they seem to try and find their way out of doors.
\n\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>
\n(If they had known how cold it was outside, they wouldn’t have bothered. Today’s high temperature was a chilly 43\u00b0F and felt even colder.)<\/p>\n

These ‘flies had the right idea, basking in the tropical heat of their habitat and munching on fruit …
\n\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a><\/p>\n

… or just enjoying the plant life.
\n\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>
\n\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Butterfly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally made it to the Tropical Butterfly House at Pacific Science Center (PSC); it opened in 1998. I guess one reason I put off visiting for so long is because, as previously noted, I have ambivalent feelings about animals in captivity. My curiosity about the Butterfly House overcame any reservations I had, especially after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,15,17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colors","category-fauna","category-flora","category-garden","category-seattle-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}