{"id":32,"date":"2006-11-24T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T08:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valeriekampmeier.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-11-24T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T08:02:03","slug":"platypus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/archives\/32-platypus.html","title":{"rendered":"Platypus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently returned from a trip to Sydney, and was drawn as usual to the fabulous wildlife. Here&#8217;s my first attempt at videoing my favorite Australian inhabitant&#8211; the duck-billed platypus.  When underwater, playpuses (platypi?) close their ears, eyes and nose and navigate by a kind of radar. They are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monotreme\">monotremes<\/a>, which are egg-laying mammals, and are really extraordinary. Wish I could have brought her home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently returned from a trip to Sydney, and was drawn as usual to the fabulous wildlife. Here&#8217;s my first attempt at videoing my favorite Australian inhabitant&#8211; the duck-billed platypus. When underwater, playpuses (platypi?) close their ears, eyes and nose and navigate by a kind of radar. They are monotremes, which are egg-laying mammals, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/archives\/32-platypus.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Platypus<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free2create.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}