{"id":22817,"date":"2025-02-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2025-02-01T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T20:28:26","slug":"__trashed-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22817","title":{"rendered":"Bugs and Worms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Last year my husband spotted his first spotted lantern fly. He was across town at the time, nowhere near our property, but it&#8217;s only a matter of time before the bugs work their way over here. Related: a couple of weeks ago, I read that emerald ash borers have been discovered in the parkland near our home. I knew they were in town, but I didn&#8217;t know how close. I love <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21093\">our ash trees<\/a>, and I will be so sad if they die. Last time I checked, there were no holes in the bark, but I was looking at eye level and below. Who knows what&#8217;s happened since or what&#8217;s going on higher up the trunks?<\/li><li>My brain is cruel to me. Not only does it have a propensity for ear worms, but it also latches on to certain ideas and phrases (thought worms?) and then repeats them over and over again. For example, I&#8217;ve been studying music theory, and one night before bed I was reading about second inversion triads and their uses. One use is the &#8220;cadential 6-4.&#8221; My brain latched onto that phrase, and all night my dreams were plagued with references to the cadential 6-4. I slept very poorly. Afterward, I hoped that there might be a bright side&#8211;that I wouldn&#8217;t soon forget what a cadential 6-4 was&#8211;but damned if I could define it for you now!<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year my husband spotted his first spotted lantern fly. He was across town at the time, nowhere near our property, but it&#8217;s only a matter of time before the bugs work their way over here. Related: a couple of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22817\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22817"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23544,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions\/23544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}