{"id":2369,"date":"2013-06-10T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2013-06-11T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T00:42:59","slug":"peppy-music-and-tea-and-praying-mantises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"Peppy Music and Tea and Praying Mantises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday, all!<\/p>\n<p>In the back yard today, I saw what seemed to be hundreds of baby praying mantises coming out of their egg. Pretty amazing. I was by one of our pecan trees when I noticed that the bark looked like it was moving. Did you know that a praying mantis is known as an apex predator? The things that I learn from my son, Charlie. I would have snapped a picture, but it was sort of a spellbinding thing and, also, with the light and the speed of the insects (they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fast<\/span>), I don&#8217;t think that I would have gotten a decent image, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>After we came in, Eli decided that we needed to have tea. So, we did. Nothing like an Oreo (or four) in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130610-101148.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130610-101148.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130610-101148.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also decreed that we needed peppy music while we had our tea.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace and Gromit to the rescue! We listened to this and drank our tea and felt British, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DA71f3IiFqE\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of peppy music, I&#8217;ve been really liking Jake Bugg lately. He sounds like a youngish Dylan, to me, for some reason. I just love nearly-perfect little songs that are less than 3 minutes long. I think I have a case of adult-onset lack of focus, or maybe (definitely) lack of patience. Oh well. Also, the older I get the more I dislike slow, mellow music. What is happening here?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here he is doing <em>Lightning Bolt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/myu7Lbs0VTM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alright. Onwards and upwards, y&#8217;all. My to-do list beckons.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good day, everyone!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday, all! In the back yard today, I saw what seemed to be hundreds of baby praying mantises coming out of their egg. Pretty amazing. I was by one of our pecan trees when I noticed that the bark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}