{"id":80,"date":"2023-11-21T00:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-11-21T00:50:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:50:34","slug":"explore-the-other-side-extra-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/2023\/11\/21\/explore-the-other-side-extra-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore the other side (Extra Credit)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s not exactly an object but I think it is valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ladybugs are kind of disgusting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A  small little ladybug has been living in my room for almost a week now. She doesn&#8217;t fly much, so I don&#8217;t really mind, and I always pictured lady bugs as cute insects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three of my little friends now, they&#8217;re multiplying. I found what appeared to be a ladybug carcass on the floor, it was sort of transparent with an orangish color, I threw it away, so I can&#8217;t describe it very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I approached one of my little dotted friends, and to my surprise, he didn&#8217;t have any dots at all, in fact he was also more orange than red, and a horrendous tail thing was coming out is back, almost as if a fish was stuck inside the bug, and only its tail was visible from the outside, like a poorly digested meal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then took a closer look, as I thought that maybe my bad sight was getting on my way. And would you look at that! On top of what I assumed to be its white infinity shaped head lied a black M! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had been bamboozled, these are not ladybugs, these are Asian lady beetles! I grabbed my ocean dark blue flip flops, and *crunch*, a satisfying little sound came off the first one, like when you break a dry autumn leaf that has fallen off its tree&#8230; *crunch* again, two are gone&#8230; Oh, it seems like I lost the third one&#8230; what a shame, hopefully it&#8217;s not plotting a breathtaking revenge against me&#8230;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh no, wait! I found it, and would you look at that? There were four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not exactly an object but I think it is valid. Ladybugs are kind of disgusting. A small little ladybug has been living in my room for almost a week now. She doesn&#8217;t fly much, so I don&#8217;t really mind, and I always pictured lady bugs as cute insects. There are three of my little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}