{"id":4886,"date":"2024-08-19T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:02:12","slug":"pteri-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=4886","title":{"rendered":"Pteri Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oftentimes you buy something and it does not live up to your expectations. We’ve all been there. And sometimes we buy something and find that it is so wonderful and perfect for the job. Some years ago I was at the hardware shop, no doubt buying something extremely practical when I spotted a bin of plastic dinosaurs. So there was this little pterosaur with a happy expression and I instantly decided that I needed said dino, As I looked more closely, I decided that this dino was photogenic and we have since had a number of adventures. This is the most recent one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had gone out to get the newspaper and I noticed that due to the recent rains, some puffballs had sprung up. Pteri obliged the photo op.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Archaeopteryx (also a possibly flying dinosaur) was available for posing too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the next day the puffball had opened and Pteri was a good sport about posing again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next day the puffball has fully opened and I imagined that Archy would come the rescue of Pteri. This little inexpensive pterosaur has once again been a source of amusement and art. I have held, that almost any picture is improved by adding a pterodactyl, and here is proof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oftentimes you buy something and it does not live up to your expectations. We’ve all been there. And sometimes we buy something and find that it is so wonderful and perfect for the job. Some years ago I was at the hardware shop, no doubt buying something extremely practical when I spotted a bin of … Continue reading Pteri Tales<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-toys"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4893,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}