{"id":84,"date":"2011-04-15T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2011-05-03T13:28:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:28:59","slug":"my-friend-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"My Friend Is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-85\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=85\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-85\" title=\"100_0833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0833-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0833-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/100_0833-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look, my little friend is back!<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a gecko living on our deck for several years now, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see him during the winter, so I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure if he was still in residence here. Turns out he is!<\/p>\n<p>Look at that bright green. Sherwin Williams could develop a family of paint colors based on that shade of green.<\/p>\n<p>I like my gecko. He eats bugs, and he mostly keeps to himself.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw a gecko, we were considering a move to Carolina and our realtor was showing us some houses in the area. We walked into the living room of one particular house and there was a gecko, on top of the couch. I jumped and yelled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lizard!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Our realtor smiled and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gecko.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, that made it all okay.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a British accent, nor does he remind me about car insurance and all things mundane. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just an unassuming little creature that appears on occasion, absorbed in his next quest to devour an insect that might otherwise bother me.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0I like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Look, my little friend is back! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a gecko living on our deck for several years now, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see him during the winter, so I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure if he was still in residence here. Turns out he is! Look at that bright green. Sherwin Williams could develop a family of paint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-geckos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}