{"id":859,"date":"2007-11-07T00:06:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2007-11-07T00:06:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:06:47","slug":"visited-by-a-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Visited by a dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/DSC00263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/tn_DSC00263.jpg\"  height=\"113\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 113px\" \/><\/a>On the 20th of October, the same day the Light Racers and Tether competitions were held, the Space Elevator Games were visited by a dragonfly.\u00a0 Jacob Shelef found the dragonfly, cold and wet and trying to get warm and dry,\u00a0and brought it to the attention of his mother, Susan.\u00a0 The Dragonfly certainly seemed to take a liking to her, riding her arm, face, hair, etc. for several hours before she finally put it down in a safe place.<\/p>\n<p>I took a couple of videos of her and Jacob and the dragonfly.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dragonfly\">Wikipedia<\/a>, dragonflies have good reputations and bad reputations,\u00a0depending on the culture you are referring to.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always liked them &#8211; they are beautiful creatures.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q93_aQfVIQI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GWIdbR4co38[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>(As always, click on the picture thumbnail for a larger version)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 20th of October, the same day the Light Racers and Tether competitions were held, the Space Elevator Games were visited by a dragonfly.\u00a0 Jacob Shelef found the dragonfly, cold and wet and trying to get warm and dry,\u00a0and brought it to the attention of his mother, Susan.\u00a0 The Dragonfly certainly seemed to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}