{"id":242,"date":"2006-01-28T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T02:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2006-01-28T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T02:36:52","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2006\/01\/behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a bit of a behind the scenes tour today of the wildlife at Busch Gardens here in Florida.&nbsp; All of their animals are so beautiful and well cared for &#8212; though, as nice as their enclosures may be, I do wish these animals didn&#8217;t have to be in captivity and were roaming free as nature intended. We were up early this morning as well to do some research of some of Florida&#8217;s resident wildlife.&nbsp; I was just asked to paint some specific species from this area, so I am focusing my studies for that request at the moment.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rebecca Latham - Wildlife Artist\" style=\"width: 26px; height: 17px\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Rebecca Latham - Wildlife Artist\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/RL.gif?resize=26%2C17\" width=\"26\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Latham Studios - Wildlife &#038; Nature Art\" style=\"width: 33px; height: 41px\" height=\"41\" alt=\"Latham Studios - Wildlife &#038; Nature Art\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/BearpawClip.gif?resize=33%2C41\" width=\"33\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a bit of a behind the scenes tour today of the wildlife at Busch Gardens here in Florida.&nbsp; All of their animals are so beautiful and well cared for &#8212; though, as nice as their enclosures may be, I do wish these animals didn&#8217;t have to be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,12,13,17],"tags":[53,55,57,58,65,86,88,184,225,287,300,323,366,375,424,463,467],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-inspiration_researchstudy_fieldtrips","category-miscellaneous","category-paintings","tag-animal","tag-animals","tag-area","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-bit","tag-blog","tag-florida","tag-inspiration","tag-moment","tag-nature","tag-paint","tag-research","tag-safari","tag-today","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife_art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}