{"id":1269,"date":"2025-06-13T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:43:11","slug":"among-the-lilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Among the Lilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"257\">In the quiet stillness of a sun-dappled pond, a red-crested pochard delicately investigates a water lily in bloom. This female, less flamboyant than her male counterpart, moves with measured intent among the floating leaves.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"460\">The water lily is not only a resting place but also a potential source of food. With her strong, flattened bill, she probes the blossom for soft plant matter or invertebrates hidden within its folds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"597\">In this moment, grace and adaptation intertwine &#8211; a gentle reminder of how life finds sustenance in the most elegant corners of nature.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"728\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"613\">Netta rufina<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the quiet stillness of a sun-dappled pond, a red-crested pochard delicately investigates a water lily in bloom. This female, less flamboyant than her male&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portrait","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_6343-2-Enhanced-NR-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}