{"id":5338,"date":"2011-11-15T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2011-11-15T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:53:56","slug":"well-it-was-going-to-die-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=5338","title":{"rendered":"Well, it was going to die anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped outside and found a poor praying mantis right outside the door.<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSABcucheMwKkgWTbZrallCIbZKDxsn-jOODWVXwLL5O3lNWzWQ\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe poor thing was not moving, probably barely alive.  I like praying mantises, myself.  They are a good bug to have around, as they eat other, smaller, more annoying bugs.  But this one was obviously on it&#8217;s last legs and going to die in the cold anyway.  <\/p>\n<p>So I scooped it up and took it out to my chickens.  Wow!  They went after it like chocolate in a class full of teenagers.  I just wished I had THREE praying mantises (or praying manti?) to give to them so they could ALL have a nice big bug to eat.  One grabbed it and then dropped it and another charged.  Hopefully they all got some nice crispy bite. Grasshoppers are also a nice delicacy for them. <\/p>\n<p>A rare late autumn treat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped outside and found a poor praying mantis right outside the door. The poor thing was not moving, probably barely alive. I like praying mantises, myself. They are a good bug to have around, as they eat other, smaller, more annoying bugs. But this one was obviously on it&#8217;s last legs and going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5344,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions\/5344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}