{"id":1355,"date":"2006-08-26T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:41:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:41:42","slug":"a-jade-earring-in-its-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"A jade earring in its place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/P8250096.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/P8250096-300x224.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">What a difference a day makes!  On my way out the door to work this morning I detoured to check the progress of the monarch caterpillar and discovered it still dangling upside down, deciding how to get rid of its skin.  When I returned late this afternoon, I found the caterpillar had redressed itself in this beautiful chrysalis!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>&#8220;The chrysalis of the Monarch&#8230; looks like a jade earring.  Near the light green top, an elegant band of gold is underscored with a thin black line.  More highlights of gold decorate the bottom half.  No one fully understands the purpose of this glitter.  Perhaps the pupae gleam to warn off predators.  Perhaps  their reflectance camouflages them in the light and dark of a sunlight branch.  They may be trying to look like metallic beetles.  They may be imitating raindrops.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211;  Sharman Apt Russell, <em>An Obsession with Butterflies<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference a day makes! On my way out the door to work this morning I detoured to check the progress of the monarch caterpillar and discovered it still dangling upside down, deciding how to get rid of its skin. When I returned late this afternoon, I found the caterpillar had redressed itself in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A jade earring in its place<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}