{"id":6784,"date":"2016-12-18T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=6784"},"modified":"2024-07-20T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T17:10:35","slug":"cicada-christmas-lights-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-christmas-lights-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Christmas Lights 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lights-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada Lights\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lights-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lights-1-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lights-3.jpg\" alt=\"String of Cicada Lights\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lights-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lights-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made Christmas lights, in the past, from <a href=\"\/cicadas\/cicada-christmas-lights\/\">plastic cicada whistles from Australia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This year I tried something new and used real cicada exuvia (skins\/shells) and LED &#8220;fairie lights&#8221;, which <em>seem to <\/em>run cool enough that they won&#8217;t be a hazard to the fragile skins. They look pretty. I&#8217;m still in the testing phase, but the results so far look promising. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made Christmas lights, in the past, from plastic cicada whistles from Australia. This year I tried something new and used real cicada exuvia (skins\/shells) and LED &#8220;fairie lights&#8221;, which seem to run cool enough that they won&#8217;t be a hazard to the fragile skins. They look pretty. I&#8217;m still in the testing phase, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784","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=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}