{"id":1022,"date":"2011-07-11T09:54:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T13:54:50","slug":"how-do-the-bugs-get-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/how-do-the-bugs-get-in\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do the Bugs Get In?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1023\" title=\"Moth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Moth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One summer, fine green<br \/>\ngrasshoppers came in pairs to linger<br \/>\non my bedroom ceiling.<br \/>\nA two-inch-long stag beetle<br \/>\ncrawled behind the garbage can<br \/>\nthe other day.<br \/>\nThis morning there\u2019s a moth<br \/>\non the sink pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the bugs fly unnoticed<br \/>\nin the door\u2019s gap when we\u2019re passing<br \/>\nout and in all day long, but<br \/>\nit does seem strange when<br \/>\nunusually large ones appear<br \/>\nunannounced, most often<br \/>\nwhen we\u2019re barefoot<br \/>\nand vulnerable in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>I do nothing about them but<br \/>\nmarvel and wait<br \/>\n\u2018til they die, when I collect<br \/>\neach frail carcass in a tissue<br \/>\nand throw it away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One summer, fine green grasshoppers came in pairs to linger on my bedroom ceiling. A two-inch-long stag beetle crawled behind the garbage can the other day. This morning there\u2019s a moth on the sink pedestal. I suppose the bugs fly unnoticed in the door\u2019s gap when we\u2019re passing out and in all day long, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}