{"id":386,"date":"2012-03-27T13:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T21:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2012-03-27T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T21:01:24","slug":"a-central-texas-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"A Central Texas &ldquo;Dragon&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Chinese Year of the Dragon, my wife noticed that our region of the Texas Hill Country features a living (?) river dragon of considerable size, also known as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laketravis.com\/main_about.htm\">Lake Travis<\/a>.\u201d But look! <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/laketravisdragon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"laketravisdragon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"laketravisdragon\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/laketravisdragon-thumb.jpg\" width=\"521\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> So I looked and sure enough. Well, I just had to tell you! With a little more rain it\u2019ll get fleshier. It was created only seventy or so years ago by building a dam to prevent periodic floods and inundations of our capitol city of Austin (off the picture to the right).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Chinese Year of the Dragon, my wife noticed that our region of the Texas Hill Country features a living (?) river dragon of considerable size, also known as \u201cLake Travis.\u201d But look! So I looked and sure enough. Well, I just had to tell you! With a little more rain it\u2019ll get fleshier. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}