{"id":4279,"date":"2022-09-07T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2024-08-06T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T18:24:59","slug":"legend-of-the-salamander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/omg_animals\/legend-of-the-salamander\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend of the Salamander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Axolotl (<em>Ambystoma mexicanum)<\/em> is an aquatic salamander that gets its name from the native Aztec language. The word refers to the Aztec god Xolotl. Legend has it that Xolotl transformed himself into an Axolotl to escape banishment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4079\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4079\" title=\"axolotl_salamander_aztec_god\" src=\"\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/axolotl_salamander_aztec_god.jpg\" alt=\"axolotl salamander\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/axolotl_salamander_aztec_god.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/axolotl_salamander_aztec_god-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/axolotl_salamander_aztec_god-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flicrk credit: pabloneco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Ambystoma_mexicanum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Ambystoma_mexicanum.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Axolotl a salamander or an Aztec god? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,13,409],"tags":[270,23,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-4279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts","10":"tag-aztec","11":"tag-salamander","12":"tag-united-nations"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593628,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/593628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}