{"id":1752,"date":"2004-06-01T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T18:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2004-06-01T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T18:13:39","slug":"bats-are-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"Bats are cool&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BatFlying.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/BatFlying.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAnd <b>man<\/b> do they fly fast!  This is the best of about twenty shots I tried of this guy circling and diving and flying about&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe spent Sunday night out at camp and this guy was our unexpected visitor.  In the middle of a card game, this guy started circling around the living room, madly looking for a way out.  My mom and my wife tried to shoo him out through the sliding door with a towel, but that didn&#8217;t work out too well&#8230;  Dad was outside and he came over to see why the screen was open and he nearly got a facefull of bat.  Eventually, my wife dropped a towel over it, mom slid a cutting board under it and they carried it outside.  After it was released, it flew around for quite a while, gleefully gobbling up mosquitos.<\/p>\n<p>I got a lot of shots of blurred trees, blurred bat, and probably some blurred bugs, so this one was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And man do they fly fast! This is the best of about twenty shots I tried of this guy circling and diving and flying about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}