{"id":1989,"date":"2023-11-15T07:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2023-11-15T07:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:36:35","slug":"blue-tongue-lizard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/?p=1989","title":{"rendered":"Blue Tongue Lizard time."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1993\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Blue-tongue-lizard-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1993\" src=\"https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Blue-tongue-lizard-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lizard was about half the size of this Blue Tongue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The white coping on the edge of the platform is no place for a blue tongue lizard or for the excited children dancing around it.\u00a0 The poor creature keeps swerving to peer over the edge of the platform clearly looking for a hidey hole or just an escape from the kids. 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