{"id":29790,"date":"2016-08-15T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=29790"},"modified":"2016-08-15T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:01:08","slug":"macro-monday-knows-the-definition-of-formication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/08\/15\/macro-monday-knows-the-definition-of-formication\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro Monday Knows The Definition Of Formication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/terribleminds\/28807952192\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8651\/28807952192_0b156f1abf_b.jpg?resize=700%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OH GOD HE&#8217;S AS BIG AS A ROTTWEILER<\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S A MONSTER<\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S CLICKING AT ME<\/p>\n<p>SEND BORAX AND SUGAR<\/p>\n<p>Fine, no, he&#8217;s not some gi-hugic ant, it&#8217;s just an ant at the end of my\u00a0macro lens. This one is\u00a0<i>Camponotus pennsylvanicus &#8212;\u00a0<\/i>the black carpenter ant. And of course he&#8217;s just here, surely excited to revel in tomorrow&#8217;s release of\u00a0<strong>Invasive<\/strong>. And hey, did you see there&#8217;s a contest?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a contest. A photo contest! <a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/08\/15\/the-invasive-photo-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Details here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, speaking of ants, I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/08\/meet-the-worst-ants-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>this fascinating article on the Argentine ant<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212; an invasive species, hint hint &#8212; at Ars Technica by the awesome Annalee Newitz.<\/p>\n<p>See you tomorrow for the release of <strong>Invasive<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nab it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780062351579\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Indiebound<\/strong><\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2b8NqvW\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/invasive-chuck-wendig\/1123016107?ean=9780062351579\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>B&amp;N<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OH GOD HE&#8217;S AS BIG AS A ROTTWEILER IT&#8217;S A MONSTER IT&#8217;S CLICKING AT ME SEND BORAX AND SUGAR Fine, no, he&#8217;s not some gi-hugic ant, it&#8217;s just an ant at the end of my\u00a0macro lens. This one is\u00a0Camponotus pennsylvanicus &#8212;\u00a0the black carpenter ant. And of course he&#8217;s just here, surely excited to revel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-7Ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29793,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions\/29793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}