{"id":113,"date":"2009-08-30T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/08\/30\/090830_mantis\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T13:33:19","slug":"090830_mantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/08\/30\/090830_mantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mantid on Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We brought a nice lantana back with us from Fort Stockton, a birthday gift for my wife from my brother and sister-in-law. After it was situated on the back porch, Debbie called me to take a photo of what might have been a stowaway on the trip home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/mantis.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Praying Mantis\"><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s wet because she sprayed him with a hose before she realized he wasn&#8217;t a grasshopper. I think he&#8217;s a little miffed, if the expression on his face is any indication.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also more than a little creepy the way he follows your movements with his head and eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We brought a nice lantana back with us from Fort Stockton, a birthday gift for my wife from my brother and sister-in-law. After it was situated on the back porch, Debbie called me to take a photo of what might have been a stowaway on the trip home. He&#8217;s wet because she sprayed him with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/08\/30\/090830_mantis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mantid on Board<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-photography","category-wildlife-inverts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8717,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/8717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}