{"id":228,"date":"2010-02-12T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/02\/12\/100212_mantisandcursor\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T11:28:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:28:17","slug":"100212_mantisandcursor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/02\/12\/100212_mantisandcursor\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalking the wily cursor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">We once had a neighbor whose hyperactive Maltese terrier would chase a flashlight beam around the room for as long as we had the energy to move the light. His seriousness in attempting to capture what was obviously a highly annoying if not downright dangerous prey never failed to amuse. Nor does the following:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y0ExpwpzGsE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> If you&#8217;ve never been around mantids, you won&#8217;t completely understand how creepy they can be as they follow your every movement with their beady little eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2010\/02\/11\/computer-bug\/\">Neatorama<\/a><\/p>\n<style><\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We once had a neighbor whose hyperactive Maltese terrier would chase a flashlight beam around the room for as long as we had the energy to move the light. His seriousness in attempting to capture what was obviously a highly annoying if not downright dangerous prey never failed to amuse. Nor does the following: If&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/02\/12\/100212_mantisandcursor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stalking the wily cursor<\/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":[27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-web","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\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}