{"id":22588,"date":"2026-07-15T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22588"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:39:57","slug":"critter-of-the-day-mint-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22588","title":{"rendered":"Critter of the Day: Mint Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mintmothIMG_20260714_115911.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mintmothIMG_20260714_115911.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mintmothIMG_20260714_115911-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>The tiny <em>Pyrausta aurata<\/em>, a princess among moths with its gold-flecked velvet gown, flowing blonde mane and blue eyes.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>London Burning<\/em>* by Anthony Quinn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny Pyrausta aurata, a princess among moths with its gold-flecked velvet gown, flowing blonde mane and blue eyes. A2 is reading London Burning* by Anthony Quinn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[20,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588"}],"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=22588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22591,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions\/22591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}