{"id":11179,"date":"2013-04-13T12:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T11:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2013-04-13T12:05:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T11:05:58","slug":"ever-heard-of-the-tuatara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11179","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of the tuatara?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/RTWtrip#NZ\">our recent visit to New Zealand<\/a>, we came across a creature that I had never heard of before: tuatara.<\/p>\n<p>It is a most unusual animal. It is rare and can be found only in New Zealand. It looks like a lizard but comes from a distinct lineage going back 200 years million which means that it is sometimes dubbed a &#8220;living fossil&#8221;.\u00a0It can hear but it has no ears. And it has a so-called &#8216;third eye&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>On holiday, we bought a set of six wooden coasters in the shape of the tuatara and cleverly they can all fit together into one structure.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about tuatara <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuatara\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our recent visit to New Zealand, we came across a creature that I had never heard of before: tuatara. It is a most unusual animal. It is rare and can be found only in New Zealand. It looks like a lizard but comes from a distinct lineage going back 200 years million which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}