{"id":143,"date":"2006-01-27T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2006-01-27T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T13:00:31","slug":"skink-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Skink in the house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia small lizards, known as skinks are considered good luck if you see them &#8211; especially for women. Well, since we have been doing so much to the garden recently, and disturbed all the insects and provided drippers for irrigation, the population of skinks in our garden has multiplied considerably. Anyhow, today the little luck dragons came into the house (they eat mosquitoes and other annoying little insects), and I even had the camera nearby to snap the one in our kitchen \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/skink1.jpg' alt='Australian skink' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/skink2.jpg' alt='Australian skink' \/><\/p>\n<p>The little fellow was about 15cm long from nose to tail, and had a beautiful opalescence to his skin &#8211; I wish him happy hunting to rid the house of tiny biting insects \ud83d\ude42  He&#8217;s welcome anytime!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia small lizards, known as skinks are considered good luck if you see them &#8211; especially for women. Well, since we have been doing so much to the garden recently, and disturbed all the insects and provided drippers for irrigation, the population of skinks in our garden has multiplied considerably. Anyhow, today the little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}