{"id":778,"date":"2008-05-21T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2008\/05\/camo-lizard\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T15:19:00","slug":"camo-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2008\/05\/21\/camo-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Camo Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prettygecko01.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/prettygecko01.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t spot it right away. As I was looking at the mural on the southernmost bakery in the United States, I found a gecko hiding in the lau lau.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prettygecko02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/prettygecko02.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nOnly when I got really close to it, did the gecko move away from the middle of the painting, bringing its vivid colors and patterns into full view, against the beige background. Those flashy patterns really do break up the full form of the body on the top picture.<br \/>\nOn an unrelated note, I no longer catch geckos because the last one I caught peed on my hand. I think it was trying to tell me that it didn&#8217;t like being captured, so now I only take pictures.<br \/>\nMy brother, on the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/captain-ahab-the-man-who-brought.html\">likes to eat them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t spot it right away. As I was looking at the mural on the southernmost bakery in the United States, I found a gecko hiding in the lau lau. Only when I got really close to it, did the gecko move away from the middle of the painting, bringing its vivid colors and patterns &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2008\/05\/21\/camo-lizard\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}