{"id":14898,"date":"2025-08-26T19:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:46:16","slug":"unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/unusual\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unusual sights from my yard &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This plant, spotted beebalm, develops these very gaudy crowns with pink bracts in late summer. I think it\u2019s amazing. Also &#8211; it\u2019s a perennial that moved mysteriously about three feet away from where I originally planted it. I assume it finds the new spot more to its liking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0116.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0116.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0116-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0116-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0116-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0116-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0116-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The spotted beebalm, <em>monarda punctata<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed this beetle on some dead grass near the garden gate, going somewhere fast. Its color is spectacular!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0114.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0114.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0114-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0114-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0114-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0114-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_0114-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Metallic blue-green beetle, <em>meloe impressus <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unusual sights from my yard &#8211; This plant, spotted beebalm, develops these very gaudy crowns with pink bracts in late summer. I think it\u2019s amazing. Also &#8211; it\u2019s a perennial that moved mysteriously about&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[513,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insects","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14901,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions\/14901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}