{"id":252,"date":"2006-09-28T10:05:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-10-09T01:32:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T05:32:50","slug":"butterfly-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At lunch yesterday I was watching a butterfly migration. Close to the time I sat down I noticed two monarch butterflies fluttering around the parking lot between the building where I was sitting and the parking garage. They circled, gained altitude, and drifted off southward over the garage. Half a minute later another butterfly flew across the parking lot, up, and over the parapet of the garage. A minute later a fourth came along. They were all monarchs and all heading roughly the same direction. I realized that it wasn&#8217;t a coincidence, so I kept a close eye on the parking lot airspace. I didn&#8217;t see any butterflies come over the parapet towards me. By the time I had finished my lunch twenty monarchs had crossed the parking lot. I&#8217;d like to know <a title=\"Point Pelee monarch migration page\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/pn-np\/on\/pelee\/natcul\/natcul5_e.asp\">what&#8217;s going on about now at Point Pelee in Ontario<\/a>. I wonder if they have a monarch migration webcam. (I didn&#8217;t find one, but check out the link.)\n<\/p>\n<p><!--e559ae862cd4d9c9d12b207f1ee17e2e--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At lunch yesterday I was watching a butterfly migration. Close to the time I sat down I noticed two monarch butterflies fluttering around the parking lot between the building where I was sitting and the parking garage. They circled, gained altitude, and drifted off southward over the garage. Half a minute later another butterfly flew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butterfly migration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}