{"id":455,"date":"2009-07-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:11:36","slug":"naming-the-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Naming the dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"

“What’s the use of their having names,” the Gnat said, “if they won’t answer to them?”<\/p>\n

“No use to them,” said Alice, “but it’s useful to the people that name them, I suppose.”
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— Lewis Carrol<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>A person who goes traveling to far-flung places with the express purpose of seeing things should, I guess, be concerned with the naming of those things.<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>I rather enjoy the mystery, and the magic, of meeting these fierce-looking creatures in their own strange paradise of wet meadows and sunny paths through the forest without knowing much at all about them.<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>Their names don’t much matter when I find them basking in the sun on a weathered plank bridge or stunned with the chill off one of the Great Lakes. Theirs is a world entire and to be allowed entry, however briefly with the lens of my camera, is enough.<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>Mostly.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>Some are so beautiful, so otherworldly, their faces so expressive…<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>or <\/span>their existence so threatened<\/span><\/a> that even the shimmer of an iridescent wing is enough to inspire me to learn more.<\/p>\n

For those of you Type A personalities that just HAVE TO KNOW (grin) each photo is tagged with a name, as best I can guess or remember. Click on each to enlarge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“What’s the use of their having names,” the Gnat said, “if they won’t answer to them?” “No use to them,” said Alice, “but it’s useful to the people that name them, I suppose.”— Lewis Carrol A person who goes traveling to far-flung places with the express purpose of seeing things should, I guess, be concerned … Continue reading Naming the dragons<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}