{"id":324,"date":"2007-08-12T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2007\/08\/12\/uninvited-house-guest\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T00:07:48","slug":"uninvited-house-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/uninvited-house-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninvited House Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehmkuhl send us this photo of an uninvited house guest (Tibicen linnei):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLast night at about 9:30 PM I opened our back door to let our dog out and<br \/>\nthought I felt something brush against my leg while the door was open. Next<br \/>\nthink I know my wife is screaming in the living room as a cicada is bombing<br \/>\naround the room like a drunk pilot!  It&#8217;s amazing how big a cicada looks<br \/>\nwhen it is flying indoors, bouncing off of your walls, wings buzzing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After several passes within a few inches of my wife&#8217;s head, he (she?) came<br \/>\nto rest on our kitchen floor. Carefully using a small glass and a post card<br \/>\nI was able to capture the cicada and set it free.  The next morning he was<br \/>\nright where I left him the night before, sitting on our porch, so it seemed<br \/>\nlike a good opportunity to snap a photo.  See attached&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img src='\/cicadas\/wp-content\/tomstibicen.jpg' alt='Tibicen linnei' height=\"599\" width=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehmkuhl send us this photo of an uninvited house guest (Tibicen linnei): Last night at about 9:30 PM I opened our back door to let our dog out and thought I felt something brush against my leg while the door was open. Next think I know my wife is screaming in the living room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tibicen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}