{"id":60640,"date":"2023-09-20T01:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60640"},"modified":"2023-09-20T02:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T02:59:49","slug":"weird-behaviour-on-the-face-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/09\/weird-behaviour-on-the-face-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird behaviour on the face of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birds get awfully uncomfortable<br \/>\nSometimes in the wild<br \/>\nItchy and scratchy<br \/>\nAnd acting like a child<br \/>\nThey may settle on an ants nest<br \/>\nAnd let the ants climb<br \/>\nUp over their bodies<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called Anting<br \/>\nAnd with time<br \/>\nAnts give off Formic  acid<br \/>\nA sort of insecticide<br \/>\nDeterring and relieving<br \/>\nThe birds decide<br \/>\nThis actual course of action<br \/>\nSome comfort the outcome<br \/>\nA sort of insect dust bath<br \/>\nThe ants just give them some<br \/>\nAction crows just love it<br \/>\nCrows often preen<br \/>\nA ritual of perception<br \/>\nRomantically I mean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds get awfully uncomfortable Sometimes in the wild Itchy and scratchy And acting like a child They may settle on an ants nest And let the ants climb Up over their bodies It\u2019s called Anting And with time Ants give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/09\/weird-behaviour-on-the-face-of-it\/\">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":[173,295,137,508,24,371,56,483,138,220,134,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-ants-the-aliens-of-our-time","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-comedic","category-environmental-poems","category-magpie","category-pesticides","category-rituals","category-sea-birds-and-bird-stories","category-where-friends-live","category-wild-birds","category-wildness-is-our-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60640","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=60640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60652,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60640\/revisions\/60652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}