{"id":26976,"date":"2016-08-14T02:57:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26976"},"modified":"2016-08-14T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:00:03","slug":"hour-18-prompt-18-animal-a-guessing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-18-prompt-18-animal-a-guessing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18 &#8211; Prompt 18 &#8211; Animal &#8211; A guessing game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a reptile and exist in varied colours and size<br \/>\nI have long tongue, a swaying gait and crests on my snout<br \/>\nIf I am large, I also have a beautiful, prehensile tail<br \/>\nI thrive in warm habitats from rain forests to deserts<\/p>\n<p>My feet help me grip tightly to narrow or rough branches<br \/>\nMy distinctive eyes help me observe two objects together<br \/>\nBeing special, I can see in both visible and ultraviolet light<br \/>\nI can sense my prey from a five to ten meter distance<\/p>\n<p>My tongue is twice my size and has an elastic recoil mechanism<br \/>\nI love insects and my long tongue helps me grab my victim<br \/>\nI lock my prize on my tongue with wet adhesion and suction<br \/>\nI survive in both heat and cold with my thermoregulation<\/p>\n<p>You may be unfamiliar with the above facts about me<br \/>\nWhat I will share now, will help you recognize me this instant<br \/>\nI protect myself by changing my colour as per my surroundings<br \/>\nMy top skin crystals reflect the longer wavelengths of light<\/p>\n<p>When I am relaxed, I reflect the colours blue and green<br \/>\nWhen I am excited, I appear as yellow, orange, green, and red<br \/>\nBy now, you must have guessed my identity, yes, you are right<br \/>\nI am a chameleon, I swiftly adapt and escape from your sight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a reptile and exist in varied colours and size I have long tongue, a swaying gait and crests on my snout If I am large, I also have a beautiful, prehensile tail I thrive in warm habitats from rain forests to deserts My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1901],"class_list":["post-26976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-animal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26978,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions\/26978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}