{"id":2133,"date":"2006-07-14T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2006-07-14T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T15:05:29","slug":"the-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"The Tick!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAnd I am not talking about the really cool cartoon<\/strong><\/a> either.<\/p>\n

I started housesitting for my bosses last evening. Generally I like housesitting for them … middle of nowhere house, satellite, big screen television … but now things are a little different. It’s summer and their dog has become a total tick magnet. They have this yard that surround by a field that got lots of tall grass. It’s the perfect place to come in contact with ticks. Needless to say, they have been treating him with Frontline\u00ae or Advantage\u00ae or something like that, but that doesn’t stop him from being a transporter of ticks. Last night, I crawled into bed and not a minute later felt something crawling on my leg. Yup. It was a tick and eneded up being the first of four that I pulled off of my body last night. Fortunately they were just crawling and not “latching and feeding.” Today has been awful so far. Not nearly enough sleep and I have the added bonus of feeling like ticks are crawling all over me.<\/p>\n

Now, I am generally not freaked out by bugs … but (goddamn) if those little fuckers (ticks, that is) don’t give me the willies with their feeding and engorging and disease and sucking of my blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And I am not talking about the really cool cartoon either. I started housesitting for my bosses last evening. Generally I like housesitting for them … middle of nowhere house, satellite, big screen television … but now things are a little different. It’s summer and their dog has become a total tick magnet. They have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-yp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}