{"id":15446,"date":"2012-07-16T06:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15446"},"modified":"2012-07-07T19:45:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T00:45:35","slug":"ballad-of-the-centipede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15446","title":{"rendered":"Ballad of the Centipede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We find these suckers in the house constantly, and it&#8217;s likely that so do you.  I&#8217;ve been squishing them with extreme prejudice, but apparently they deliver enough of the old ultraviolence on roaches and other less-desirable guests that I might turn a blind eye to them from now on.  As Maggie at <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/07\/05\/ballad-of-the-scutigera-coleop.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> relates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Originally native to the Mediterranean, they now live &#8230; everywhere. (And please, feel free to imagine these buggers speaking in comic, stereotypical Italiano-Greek accents from now on. God knows I will.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3W3R3EElMho?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3W3R3EElMho?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We find these suckers in the house constantly, and it&#8217;s likely that so do you. I&#8217;ve been squishing them with extreme prejudice, but apparently they deliver enough of the old ultraviolence on roaches and other less-desirable guests that I might turn a blind eye to them from now on. As Maggie at BoingBoing relates: Originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15450,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions\/15450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}