{"id":224,"date":"2004-06-02T23:04:43","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/cynops-pyrrhogaster\/"},"modified":"2004-06-02T23:04:43","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T23:04:43","slug":"cynops-pyrrhogaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/02\/cynops-pyrrhogaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynops pyrrhogaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"salamander.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/salamander.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caudata.org\/cc\/species\/Cynops\/C_pyrrhogaster.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese Firebellied Newt<\/a> that one of my students caught in the Tamarai River that runs next to my Chugakko. Yesterday, my JTE decided to have class outside, and to &#8220;wing it&#8221;. As would be expected when kids are taken outdoors and there is no lesson plan, the kids didn&#8217;t learn any English, but we had a great time playing in the river.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"salamander2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/salamander2.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"183\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSupposedly the poison of this newt is not toxic to humans unless it gets into an open cut, but I&#8217;m not going to lick it and find out.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tamaraifry.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/tamaraifry.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nLittle fishy. I was amazed to see one of my slower students in this environment, as he transformed into a master of this environment, captureing frogs, salamanders, fish, and other aquatic animals with ease. He has a different kind intelligence, unfortunately it is a kind that isn&#8217;t very useful in the Japanese educational system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Japanese Firebellied Newt that one of my students caught in the Tamarai River that runs next to my Chugakko. Yesterday, my JTE decided to have class outside, and to &#8220;wing it&#8221;. As would be expected when kids are taken outdoors and there is no lesson plan, the kids didn&#8217;t learn any English, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/02\/cynops-pyrrhogaster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}