{"id":610,"date":"2011-06-05T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/06\/05\/110605-fireantsightingsingapore\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:08:42","slug":"110605-fireantsightingsingapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/06\/05\/110605-fireantsightingsingapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Ant Sighting &#8211; Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/05\/13\/110513-antbands\/\">Create a Haiku to Win a Cheap Fire Ant Wristband<\/a>&#8221; Contest? An impressive number of you apparently have a lot of time on your hands, because we got some great entries from around the world, literally, including New Zealand and Singapore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting for some photos of those lovely gifts set in exotic locations, but Li-Ern &#8211;&nbsp;who scored extra geek points by evoking Gollum&#8217;s psychotic greed, and fonts, <a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/05\/13\/110513-antbands\/#comment-1249\">in her poem<\/a> &#8211;&nbsp;has provided a couple from Singapore. Click on the small images below to see a larger version of each. (If you&#8217;re skeptical that these pictures actually originate from Singapore, you&#8217;ll just have to trust me. I&#8217;m the one who had to fill out the ridiculous <acronym title=\"Department of Homeland Security\">DHS<\/acronym> form to get the mailing through customs.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed with her use of one as an anklet. Following her lead, I managed to pull one over my foot and onto my ankle, but after a few minutes my foot began turning blue and I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s not a good thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/liern_wristband1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/liern_wristband1-t.jpg\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"6\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/liern_wristband2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/liern_wristband2-t.jpg\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"6\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the &#8220;Create a Haiku to Win a Cheap Fire Ant Wristband&#8221; Contest? An impressive number of you apparently have a lot of time on your hands, because we got some great entries from around the world, literally, including New Zealand and Singapore.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still waiting for some photos of those lovely gifts set in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/06\/05\/110605-fireantsightingsingapore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire Ant Sighting &#8211; Singapore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-ant-sightings","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\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}