{"id":61,"date":"2017-05-25T01:06:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T01:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-05-30T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:03:25","slug":"fast-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/2017\/05\/25\/fast-elvis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deserts of the Southwest abound with wildlife, but much of it spends the day looking for a cool place to hang out. We all know there is no place cooler than the TOPAZ truck, and our new mascot is a Great Basin Whiptail who finds his daily comfort in the shade beneath us. He&#8217;s a speedy little fellow so of course we call him &#8220;Fast Elvis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/05\/DSC_0566-1-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/05\/DSC_0566-1-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/05\/DSC_0566-1-768x319.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/05\/DSC_0566-1-1024x426.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/05\/DSC_0566-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Basin Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tigris tigris). Photo by Andy Langford.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deserts of the Southwest abound with wildlife, but much of it spends the day looking for a cool place to hang out. We all know there is no place cooler than the TOPAZ truck, and our new mascot is a Great Basin Whiptail who finds his daily comfort in the shade beneath us. He&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/2017\/05\/25\/fast-elvis\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/05\/DSC_0566-1.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 09:32:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}