{"id":853,"date":"2010-07-06T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2010-07-06T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T20:02:45","slug":"iguana-trumps-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/iguana-trumps-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Iguana trumps Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iguana2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-852\" title=\"iguana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iguana2-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iguana2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iguana2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I once thought that my Alligator Lizard confrontation was the most harrowing thing to happen but no so, my friends. \u00a0My housekeeper came to work this morning with her camera-phone. \u00a0&#8220;Guess what was in my front yard yesterday?&#8221; she said. &#8220;An iguana.&#8221; Of course I assumed she meant a lizard that LOOKED like an iguana, after all my lizard looked like a rattlesnake to me. Then she produced evidence (I couldn&#8217;t take the photo off her phone) but this was definitely an iguana &#8211; a big one. \u00a0The neighbor told her he saw one in her palm tree the day before but then he drinks a lot, so she wasn&#8217;t sure. \u00a0Then yesterday she was gardening and &#8220;HELLO!&#8221; \u00a0There it was. \u00a0She said she almost fell over. &#8220;Corri y grite,&#8221; she said. She ran and screamed. Anyway, her cousin came over and took it away.\u00a0Her iguana trumps my lizard for sure. \u00a0What&#8217;s next? \u00a0A bear? \u00a0Oh right, there are bears going into local trash cans. \u00a0Coyotes? \u00a0Been there. \u00a0Bobcat? Done that. Mountain lion? Just down the street. Yes, Beverly Hills is paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once thought that my Alligator Lizard confrontation was the most harrowing thing to happen but no so, my friends. \u00a0My housekeeper came to work this morning with her camera-phone. \u00a0&#8220;Guess what was in my front yard yesterday?&#8221; she said. &#8220;An iguana.&#8221; Of course I assumed she meant a lizard that LOOKED like an iguana, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dear-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}