{"id":3994,"date":"2025-07-23T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:02:58","slug":"if-you-notice-this-insect-take-these-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=3994","title":{"rendered":"If You Notice This Insect, Take These Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Backyard Encounter with a Lone Star Tick<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, while mowing the lawn with my old, barely-working mower, I noticed my golden retriever,<\/p>\n<p>Mochi, lounging peacefully under our oak tree. That\u2019s when I felt a strange tickle on my ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Expecting a mosquito, I glanced down\u2014only to find a tiny black dot clinging to my skin. It wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>flying away. I carefully removed it and saw the telltale white spot: a lone star tick.<\/p>\n<p>I can usually shrug off nature\u2019s annoyances\u2014mosquito bites, bee stings\u2014but ticks? They terrify me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Backyard Encounter with a Lone Star Tick A few weeks ago, while mowing the lawn with my old, barely-working mower, I noticed my golden retriever, Mochi, lounging peacefully under our oak tree. That\u2019s when I felt a strange tickle on my ankle. Expecting a mosquito, I glanced down\u2014only to find a tiny black dot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}