{"id":1539,"date":"2016-05-22T15:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T05:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1539-ringed-tailed-dragon.html"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T05:44:29","slug":"ringed-tailed-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1539-ringed-tailed-dragon.html","title":{"rendered":"Ringed Tailed Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2137 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1367-_MG_9743.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor the most part the critters we encountered at Uluru and Kings Canyon were timid and did not easily allow themselves to be photographed.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis Ring-tailed Dragon <em>(Ctenophorus caudicinctus)<\/em> at the start of the Kings Canyon rim walk was one notable exception.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHe was happy to sit here on this rock watching just meters from the walkers passing along the trail, most of whom did not even notice him there.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOnly when I started crawling up to him on my belly did other passers by take notice. I&#8217;d swear the expression on that dragon&#8217;s face was amusement at a human on his level.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Ringed Tailed Dragon&#8217;, 1\/100s f\/8 ISO100 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; For the most part the critters we encountered at Uluru and Kings Canyon were timid and did not easily allow themselves to be photographed. This Ring-tailed Dragon (Ctenophorus caudicinctus) at the start of the Kings Canyon rim walk was one notable exception. He was happy to sit here on this rock &#8230; <a title=\"Ringed Tailed Dragon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1539-ringed-tailed-dragon.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ringed Tailed Dragon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}