{"id":1517,"date":"2014-02-14T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2014-02-21T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T09:03:11","slug":"smooth-newts-out-of-hibernation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Smooth newts out of hibernation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today I noticed that two common newts have emerged from hibernation and found their way to my garden pond at Wrenthorpe.\u00a0 The pond, although tiny in size, has been visited by a small population of newts each\u00a0spring to breed for the past thirty years. The newts are also occasionally\u00a0found hiding away under stones and leaf litter.\u00a0 On land they look very much like lizards.\u00a0 However, they move slowly and obviously do not enjoy the sun like lizards. \u00a0The photo here is of a common newt found in the garden hiding under some stones on 10th April during 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1519\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1519\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1519\" alt=\"smooth newt\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/smoothnewt.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/smoothnewt.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/smoothnewt-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/smoothnewt-500x286.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I noticed that two common newts have emerged from hibernation and found their way to my garden pond at Wrenthorpe.\u00a0 The pond, although tiny in size, has been visited by a small population of newts each\u00a0spring to breed for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}