{"id":5344,"date":"2013-08-28T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2014-08-08T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:01:24","slug":"creepy-cutie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/creepy-cutie\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Cutie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance to get up close and personal with a very large praying mantis this past weekend in Southern MD. \u00a0Many people are completely creeped out by these interesting creatures but I honestly think in these photos he&#8217;s (she&#8217;s??) just a little cutie! \u00a0The little tiny black eyes are so expressive. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t all that happy to have me nearby but it didn&#8217;t move away. \u00a0Mostly it just kept a close eye on me as I moved around to capture different angles.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three of my favorite images. \u00a0In this first one I really think it looks a little bashful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bashful&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Bashful - Praying Mantis by Catina Anderson\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4655T.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And in this one I find the brown coloring around the eye really beautiful. \u00a0Though I must admit the mouth area does creep me out just a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Praying Mantis Profile by Catina Anderson\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4693T.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Praying Mantis Portrait by Catina Anderson\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4700T.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? \u00a0Creepy or Cute? \u00a0Leave me a comment below! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance to get up close and personal with a very large praying mantis this past weekend in Southern MD. \u00a0Many people are completely creeped out by these interesting creatures but I honestly think in these photos he&#8217;s (she&#8217;s??) just a little cutie! \u00a0The little tiny black eyes are so expressive. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,922,923,11,371,300],"tags":[294,293,758,760,759],"class_list":["post-5344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-in-the-garden","category-insects-in-the-garden","category-nature","category-photo-share","category-portraiture","tag-insect","tag-macro","tag-mantis","tag-photography","tag-praying-mantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}