{"id":4152,"date":"2014-07-06T14:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:32:05","slug":"great-meadows-concord-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/07\/great-meadows-concord-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Meadows, Concord, Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a perfect New England summer day &#8212; breezy, about 85 degrees, gentle blue sky &#8212; so Carol and I decided to take a walk at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514.jpg\" alt=\"Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, Mass., looking north over the lower impoundment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514a.jpg\" alt=\"BlogJul0514a\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Northern Water Snake (Nerodia sipedon)<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514b.jpg\" alt=\"BlogJul0514b\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514b.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BlogJul0514b-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), with unidentified pollinator<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a perfect New England summer day &#8212; breezy, about 85 degrees, gentle blue sky &#8212; so Carol and I decided to take a walk at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge this afternoon. Above: Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, Mass., looking north over the lower impoundment &nbsp; Above: Northern Water Snake (Nerodia sipedon) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/07\/great-meadows-concord-mass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Meadows, Concord, Mass.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[956,948,567,535,594,448],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concord-massachusetts","tag-2014-road-trip","tag-herps","tag-hymenoptera","tag-invertebrates","tag-reptiles","tag-wetlands-ecosystem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}