{"id":2366,"date":"2025-11-05T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:16:35","slug":"desert-spiny-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/lizards\/desert-spiny-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Spiny Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Desert Spiny Lizard watched me from a rock, ready to dart to cover if I came any closer. These colorful, relatively large <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/lizard\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"523\">lizards<\/a> are a common sight in desert parks and stucco jungle around <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/phoenix\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"14\">Phoenix<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sceloporus-magister_2120-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sceloporus-magister_2120-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sceloporus-magister_2120-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sceloporus-magister_2120-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sceloporus-magister_2120-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sceloporus-magister_2120-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Desert Spiny Lizard watched me from a rock, ready to dart to cover if I came any closer. These colorful, relatively large lizards are a common sight in desert parks and stucco jungle around Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137,618,213,617],"tags":[14,523,616],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lizards","category-magister","category-phrynosomatidae","category-sceloporus","tag-phoenix","tag-lizard","tag-stucco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}