{"id":570,"date":"2008-07-02T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T09:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=570"},"modified":"2008-07-02T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T09:05:27","slug":"570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/07\/02\/570\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Big, Black Ants<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had ants in my house for a couple of years.&nbsp; But apparently, all the recent rains sent our neighborhood ants looking for a dry, warm place to be.&nbsp; And they have decided my kitchen is a lovely place to hang out.&nbsp; I, however, disagree.<\/p>\n<p>They first appeared last Friday evening.&nbsp; We squished them.&nbsp; And we realized that our plan to deep-clean the kitchen on Saturday couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time.&nbsp; So we cleaned.&nbsp; And killed a few ants in the process.&nbsp; And cleaned some more.&nbsp; By Saturday evening, all was quiet.&nbsp; They were biding their time.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The first two reappeared yesterday afternoon.&nbsp; This morning, between 6:55 and 7:00 a.m., I had killed seven more.&nbsp; I guess I will have to go on the offensive, now.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve already cleaned up the kitchen and swept the floor in there.&nbsp; And as I despise sharing my kitchen with tiny black creatures, I may need to make a trip somewhere to find some ant traps or bait.&nbsp;&nbsp; But for now, I will simply content myself with stomping on them every chance I get.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big, Black Ants I haven&#8217;t had ants in my house for a couple of years.&nbsp; But apparently, all the recent rains sent our neighborhood ants looking for a dry, warm place to be.&nbsp; And they have decided my kitchen is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/07\/02\/570\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}