{"id":59950,"date":"2023-08-14T08:52:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T08:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=59950"},"modified":"2023-08-14T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T08:53:07","slug":"stenopelmstusjerusalem-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/08\/stenopelmstusjerusalem-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Stenopelmatus(Jerusalem Cricket)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live about a year on earth<br \/>\nNot very long at all<br \/>\nI do look a bit ominous<br \/>\nAn insect<br \/>\nand as a rule<br \/>\nI love heaps moistness turns me on<br \/>\nExcites me in a way<br \/>\nI cannot fly I live in rocks<br \/>\nI am a night soul<br \/>\nSo during the day<br \/>\nI really prefer just staying put<br \/>\nI rest during the day<br \/>\nI am very sad I cannot fly<br \/>\nCentral America I lay<br \/>\nIn semi arid earth<br \/>\nAnd actually do not bite<br \/>\nUnless you disturb me<br \/>\nThen I bite with all my might<\/p>\n<p>You will know if I have bitten you<br \/>\nIt will be quite sore<br \/>\nYou may develop quite a rash<br \/>\nOf feel like flu and more<br \/>\n\u201cNino de La tierra\u201d<br \/>\nChild  of the earth<br \/>\nThat\u2019s me<br \/>\nI love the taste of decaying plants<br \/>\nAnd do honestly<br \/>\nMy life really quite solitary but sometimes<br \/>\nWe find friends<br \/>\nJerusalem crickets some call us<br \/>\nOr Potato bugs which sends<br \/>\nFrights up human beings<br \/>\nBut honestly we try<br \/>\nTo avoid you and get on with life<br \/>\nAnd that friends is no lie<\/p>\n<p>Our one disappointment<br \/>\nIs that we can\u2019t fly<br \/>\nAnd love the rocks and garden heaps<br \/>\nWhere we love to lie.<br \/>\nIf you find us in your house<br \/>\nIt\u2019s likely that your gutters need<br \/>\nCleaning out<br \/>\nFor we are drawn to detritis<br \/>\nWithout a doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live about a year on earth Not very long at all I do look a bit ominous An insect and as a rule I love heaps moistness turns me on Excites me in a way I cannot fly I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/08\/stenopelmstusjerusalem-cricket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insect-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59952,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59950\/revisions\/59952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}