{"id":84,"date":"2009-03-21T19:47:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2009\/03\/21\/buggin\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T19:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T19:47:41","slug":"buggin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2009\/03\/21\/buggin\/","title":{"rendered":"buggin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a big fan of bugs. I think they&#8217;re gross. I don&#8217;t generally think they are scary, I just think they&#8217;re icky. Unless they&#8217;re outside. Most bugs outside are OK;&nbsp; it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m on their turf. But I don&#8217;t want them in my house.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today was another Critter Day at work, and we hosted a group called BugWorks, affectionately referred to as &#8220;the bug ladies.&#8221; They&#8217;ve got spiders and scorpions, millipedes, beetles and lots of other bugs, most of which even I have to admit are pretty cool. But <i>this<\/i> is one bug that I really do like.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/lis_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/IMG_3071-492.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/lis_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/IMG_3071-thumb-512x384-492.jpg\" alt=\"March 21 2009\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"384\" width=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>This Giant Asian Mantis sat out on this plant for 2 hours and visitors got a good look at&nbsp; her. She&#8217;s quite large, about 3 inches, with a very distinct head and eyes (which is probably why I prefer them to other bugs). At one point, she was fed a cricket and I was totally fascinated watching her eat. <\/p>\n<p>all in all, a good critter day was had by all. except for the cricket. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a big fan of bugs. I think they&#8217;re gross. I don&#8217;t generally think they are scary, I just think they&#8217;re icky. Unless they&#8217;re outside. Most bugs outside are OK;&nbsp; it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m on their turf. But I don&#8217;t want them in my house. Anyway, today was another Critter Day at work, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2009\/03\/21\/buggin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">buggin&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}