{"id":21721,"date":"2013-08-15T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21721"},"modified":"2013-08-15T14:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T20:06:55","slug":"frogs-and-lichen-a-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21721","title":{"rendered":"Frogs and Lichen, a success story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Honey Moon<\/p>\n<p>Here are two pictures that make me happy. \u00a0This one is a wood frog. \u00a0They are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0790.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-21723\" alt=\"IMAG0790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0790-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>only frog found north of the Arctic Circle and, in the dog watering tub in Andover. \u00a0This makes me happy because I also regularly see skinks and toads and on occasion salamanders and various snakes. \u00a0The presence especially of amphibians means we have a very low level of toxicity on our property. \u00a0We don&#8217;t use pesticides and keep herbicide use to a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>This picture shows one of our two plum trees. \u00a0Up close. \u00a0You probably recognize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0795.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-21722\" alt=\"IMAG0795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0795-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>the lichen growing there. \u00a0Lichen are very sensitive to air pollution and will not grow in the city, for example.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Honey Moon Here are two pictures that make me happy. \u00a0This one is a wood frog. \u00a0They are the only frog found north of the Arctic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frogs and Lichen, a success story<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21724,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions\/21724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}