{"id":18967,"date":"2023-07-05T22:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T21:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18967"},"modified":"2023-09-30T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T21:45:12","slug":"critter-of-the-day-ringlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18967","title":{"rendered":"Critter of the Day: Ringlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18968\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ringletD7DL5071.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ringletD7DL5071.png 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ringletD7DL5071-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><em>Aphantopus hyperantus<\/em> sitting on a blackberry leaf. Their dark wings give them more solar energy so they are active on cloudy days.<br \/>\nAdmin1 is reading <em>Titanium Noir<\/em> by Nick Harkaway, who gives the hardboiled crime genre &#8212; there&#8217;s even a character called Marlowe &#8212; an SF slant (as have <a href=\"https:\/\/best-sci-fi-books.com\/15-best-science-fiction-noir-books\/\">various other writers<\/a>). Here it&#8217;s a tale of squabbling ultra-rich tech-heads who&#8217;ve had a life-extension process that also make them <em>very tall<\/em>. Rather different (and shorter) from books like <em>Gnomon<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Angelmaker<\/em>, it seems to have more in common with NH&#8217;s novels under his &#8216;Aidan Truhen&#8217; monicker, which is an <a href=\"https:\/\/new.wordsmith.org\/anagram\/anagram.cgi?anagram=Aidan+Truhen&amp;t=500&amp;a=n\">anagram<\/a> if I&#8217;ve ever seen one. Thanks Admin2!<br \/>\nAdmin2 is reading <em>April in Spain<\/em>* by John Banville. An Irish couple on holiday spot somebody they presumed to be dead. A slow burner with a shock ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aphantopus hyperantus sitting on a blackberry leaf. Their dark wings give them more solar energy so they are active on cloudy days. Admin1 is reading Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway, who gives the hardboiled crime genre &#8212; there&#8217;s even a character called Marlowe &#8212; an SF slant (as have various other writers). Here it&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18967\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critter of the Day: Ringlet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[19,20,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18967"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19285,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967\/revisions\/19285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}