{"id":756,"date":"2013-11-04T11:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2014-07-04T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:05:19","slug":"death-valley-springtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"death valley, springtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/caterpillar-of-sphinx-moth_blackframe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-757\" alt=\"KAnandakuttan_caterpillar of sphinx moth\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/caterpillar-of-sphinx-moth_blackframe.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/caterpillar-of-sphinx-moth_blackframe.jpg 719w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/caterpillar-of-sphinx-moth_blackframe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/caterpillar-of-sphinx-moth_blackframe-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>Caterpillar of White-lined Sphinx Moth,\u00a0Springtime in Death Valley CA<\/p>\n<p>In spring, when the tenacious wildflowers briefly sprout and bloom&#8230; huge caterpillars devour them.<\/p>\n<p>This scene has been in my head since I saw it myself, a joy to paint.<\/p>\n<p>It currently hangs in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebparks.org\/Page18.aspx#features\">Tilden Environmental Center, Berkeley CA<\/a>, in the annual exhibit <a title=\"Exhibits\" href=\"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/about\/shows-2\/\">&#8220;Nature&#8217;s Jewels&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caterpillar of White-lined Sphinx Moth,\u00a0Springtime in Death Valley CA In spring, when the tenacious wildflowers briefly sprout and bloom&#8230; huge caterpillars devour them. This scene has been in my head since I saw it myself, a joy to paint. It currently hangs in the Tilden Environmental Center, Berkeley CA, in the annual exhibit &#8220;Nature&#8217;s Jewels&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[40,43,52,109,150,178,184],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits","category-science","tag-california","tag-caterpillar","tag-death-valley","tag-nature","tag-science-2","tag-tilden-berkeley","tag-white-lined-sphinx-moth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}