{"id":2325,"date":"2009-01-28T22:27:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2009-01-28T22:27:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T14:27:18","slug":"eyes-like-an-eagle-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/01\/28\/eyes-like-an-eagle-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes like an eagle &#8211; or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the photographic assignments that came up in <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/01\/20\/hakuna-matata-part-ii\/\">Hakuna Matata<\/a> the other day was to find and take pictures of this lizard called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackson%27s_Chameleon\">Jackson\u2019s Chameleon<\/a>. These critters grow up to just 30 cm, and these go, can remain pretty much stationary and well camouflaged when they\u2019re perched up somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>So, there I was looking for the damn thing, and I just could find it after peering my eyes out for 10 minutes! Ling took a look around the area, asked me to pan my viewpoint a bit, and in about 5 seconds, said casually: \u201cThere \u2013 see it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just to show you what I mean, the critter is this picture:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image-thumb5\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/imagethumb5.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image-thumb5\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went: \u201cWhere??? !@#%#@$#$@#$\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was amused: \u201cAiyoh darling. It\u2019s right there in the middle. I\u2019ve spent years looking at these plants and animals it\u2019s easy to tell which is which, and what\u2019s out of place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And you see, this is the kind of wife that\u2019s worth her weight in gold when it comes to spotting lizards up on trees. The more so as her husband is cock-eyed!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chekyang\/3234182034\/\">actual critter<\/a> zoomed in.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the photographic assignments that came up in Hakuna Matata the other day was to find and take pictures of this lizard called Jackson\u2019s Chameleon. These critters grow up to just 30 cm, and these go, can remain pretty<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/01\/28\/eyes-like-an-eagle-or-not\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Eyes like an eagle &#8211; or not<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-entertainment","tag-ps3","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}