{"id":134919,"date":"2023-09-02T18:44:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134919"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:44:59","slug":"again-the-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/again-the-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, the ants,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the odorous house ants, whom I admire<br \/>\nfor their brilliant hive (nest) mind,<br \/>\ntheir capacity to work together<br \/>\nso astonishingly well, each individual<br \/>\ngreeting every other ant person it meets<br \/>\nwhile trailing, the others going<br \/>\nin the opposite direction: scurry, stop,<br \/>\nsniff, or antenna pat, or mark and continue<br \/>\non with the utmost haste and purpose.<br \/>\nYet, I don&#8217;t care to share my house with<br \/>\nthem. I&#8217;ve seen the extremes they&#8217;ll go to.<\/p>\n<p>This time they discovered my prayer plant&#8217;s<br \/>\nwater reservoir. The pest managers seemed<br \/>\nto discourage them so their residency<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t coincide with the wedding festivities<br \/>\n(don&#8217;t ask). Now they&#8217;re back and we&#8217;re<br \/>\ndefending our nest. I really love and admire<br \/>\ninsects, but coexistence in the home<br \/>\nis beyond my capabilities. I&#8217;m leaving<br \/>\nthe house and studio to them eventually,<br \/>\nI know. We&#8217;re all just keeping on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the odorous house ants, whom I admire for their brilliant hive (nest) mind, their capacity to work together so astonishingly well, each individual greeting every other ant person it meets while trailing, the others going in the opposite direction: scurry, stop, sniff, or antenna pat,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135426,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134919\/revisions\/135426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}