{"id":3231,"date":"2005-09-21T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/09\/21\/the-wire-ant-gazette\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:25:11","slug":"the-wire-ant-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/09\/21\/the-wire-ant-gazette\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wire Ant Gazette?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling a little down about an ongoing issue with our air conditioner thing when <acronym title=\"My Lovely Bride\">MLB<\/acronym> arrived at home for lunch bearing a large gift sack. &#8220;Here&#8230;this is from Janet and Chuck,&#8221; she said, handing me the sack which was overflowing with tissue paper. I dug in and was delighted to find the critter pictured below:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/wireant.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Ant built of welded heavy-gauge wire\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\"><\/p>\n<p>Janet claims to be a frequent reader of the Gazette, which surprises me because she&#8217;s normally quite level-headed and sensible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/spikeant.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Ant constructed of railroad spikes and nails\" style=\"float: right; padding: 1em 0 1em 24px;\">Anyway, while the &#8220;Wire Ant&#8221; is undeniably cool, I appreciate even more the fact that they thought about me while doing some shopping in the quaint little burg of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touringtexas.com\/gruene\/\">Greune<\/a>, down in the Texas Hill Country. In addition, the Wire Ant will provide excellent company to Spike Ant (shown at right), who was only recently rescued from some overly aggressive blue rug juniper in our backyard planter. Spike is in definite need of some bodywork, but, then, aren&#8217;t we all?<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>mi amigos<\/em> Janet and Chuck for the ferrous <em>Formicdide!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"smaller\">And to those readers who feel that my obsession with fake insects is becoming borderline scary, all I can say is that it&#8217;s liable to get worse before it gets better.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t swing a dead cat around here without hitting an ant of some kind. And that&#8217;s not a bad thing&#8230;<\/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":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen-sink","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\/3231","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=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8565,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}