{"id":458,"date":"2016-08-04T17:14:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-08-05T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T13:47:02","slug":"i-am-surrounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/2016\/08\/04\/i-am-surrounded\/","title":{"rendered":"I am surrounded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest differences I noticed between my Midwestern world and the Pacific Northwest was bugs. At this time of year, my world is filled with little critters. Bugs are continuously biting me, stinging me, flying into my face, eating my plants, invading my home, circling me, whizzing by me, fascinating me, keeping me company. \u00a0I am never, ever alone, and, frankly, I find that comforting.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t enjoy\u00a0mosquitoes any more than the next guy, I figure they&#8217;re just the price I must pay for the companionship of butterflies. \u00a0I have seen more amazing butterflies this year than I can remember, flitting around me like beautiful flying flowers.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of tiny trespassers are pestering you right now? \u00a0Following are short videos of just two examples of the plethora of life forms that surround me. \u00a0Click on &#8220;Read More&#8221; to view them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"nightsounds\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fl6Zmm8PQ0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"weirdbugs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ob18tE-sO6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest differences I noticed between my Midwestern world and the Pacific Northwest was bugs. At this time of year, my world is filled with little critters. Bugs are continuously biting me, stinging me, flying into my face, eating my plants, invading my home, circling me, whizzing by me, fascinating me, keeping me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}