{"id":251,"date":"2009-04-07T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/04\/unaccustomed-life-forms.html"},"modified":"2009-04-07T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T03:31:00","slug":"unaccustomed-life-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/04\/unaccustomed-life-forms.html","title":{"rendered":"Unaccustomed Life Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking from work to my car this evening, black spots floated in front of my eyes. I&#8217;d been ill the last couple of days and was still kind of wobbly, so I figured I&#8217;d better get to my car and sit down for a while. Then I realized that these were actual physical black spots, and they were flying, not floating.<\/p>\n<p>It has been so long since it was last warm enough for life of that kind to exist out of doors that it took me well over a minute to recognize the gentle swarm upon swarm of lake bugs meandering through the spring air. They looked as confused as I felt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking from work to my car this evening, black spots floated in front of my eyes. I&#8217;d been ill the last couple of days and was still kind of wobbly, so I figured I&#8217;d better get to my car and sit down for a while. Then I realized that these were actual physical black spots, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/04\/unaccustomed-life-forms.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unaccustomed Life Forms<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}