{"id":1163,"date":"2011-07-12T15:37:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T21:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2011-07-12T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T21:37:59","slug":"mosquito-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2011\/07\/12\/mosquito-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We were here a couple years ago<\/em>\u2014just\u00a0up the shore a bit\u00a0on a pine tree trail\u00a0where we found ourselves enswarmed by mosquitos\u00a0setting upon us with such ferocity that we could not swap fast enough.<\/p>\n<p><em>And here we are again<\/em>\u2014taking a road that we didn&#8217;t take back then but along which the mosquitos swarm just as ferociously.<\/p>\n<p>And with the sweat running down our sides\u00a0and the mosquitos swirling about us in the car as we drive slowly along the gravel road\u00a0thru the scrub\u00a0beside marshy, brackish water\u00a0that smells of low tide,\u00a0without saying a thing to each other about the heat and the sweat and the biting bugs,\u00a0the we view the passing land and the birds and the snakes and keep an eye out for alligators and silently wonder how much longer the road goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were here a couple years ago\u2014just\u00a0up the shore a bit\u00a0on a pine tree trail\u00a0where we found ourselves enswarmed by mosquitos\u00a0setting upon us with such ferocity that we could not swap fast enough. And here we are again\u2014taking a road that we didn&#8217;t take back then but along which the mosquitos swarm just as ferociously. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}