{"id":1116,"date":"2008-09-21T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T03:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2008-09-21T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T03:30:19","slug":"look-who-is-hanging-around-our-house-best-shot-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Look who is hanging around our house ~ Best Shot Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week while we were getting ready for school J. and Addie discovered a little visitor in our courtyard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"What the...? by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/2877986642\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3183\/2877986642_0acf3db959.jpg\" alt=\"What the...?\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addie checked on him before school, after school, and several times throughout the day. &#8220;Mama! He&#8217;s still there!&#8221; she&#8217;d screech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"He is still there! by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/2877992182\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3067\/2877992182_2b0f424a98.jpg\" alt=\"He is still there!\" width=\"339\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What was it that created such a commotion?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"Praying that he won't fall off the gate by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/2877980548\/sizes\/l\/\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3178\/2877980548_9e5dbc6329.jpg\" alt=\"Praying that he won't fall off the gate\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This lovely little praying mantis is my BSM for today. If you click on the photo you can get a closer look. He was really, really cool. Since then we have seen two others in our garden &#8211; well perhaps this guy again and his friend!<\/p>\n<p>Stop by <a href=\"http:\/\/maypapers.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/rockin-my-best-shot.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey&#8217;s<\/a> to see who else is hanging around with some BSMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week while we were getting ready for school J. and Addie discovered a little visitor in our courtyard. Addie checked on him before school, after school, and several times throughout the day. &#8220;Mama! He&#8217;s still there!&#8221; she&#8217;d screech. What &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addison","category-best-shot-monday","category-bugs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}