{"id":172,"date":"2006-05-23T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2006-05-23T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T04:50:09","slug":"fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a firefly tonight when I was out for a walk.&nbsp; Two, actually.&nbsp; It was the first time I had ever seen a firefly in&nbsp;real life&nbsp;and it was amazing.&nbsp; It was nothing like I thought it would be (though I have to admit I have not spent long nights wondering what fireflies look like).&nbsp; They are relatively dull looking, just another grayish flying bug, and then *flash* they light up (kind of a greenish-yellow) and then the light fades into an ember and then into nothing.&nbsp; Then it starts all over again with another *flash*.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot of fun to try and follow the little guys after their lights fade only to see them *flash* again in a totally different location than where you were searching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a firefly tonight when I was out for a walk.&nbsp; Two, actually.&nbsp; It was the first time I had ever seen a firefly in&nbsp;real life&nbsp;and it was amazing.&nbsp; It was nothing like I thought it would be (though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/fireflies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}