{"id":340,"date":"2005-08-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/08\/persistent-flies\/"},"modified":"2005-08-12T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T17:00:00","slug":"persistent-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/08\/persistent-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.ento.psu.edu\/extension\/factsheets\/images\/housefly_cycle.jpg\" align=left>I hate flies, I really hate them, particularly persistent ones that hang in a room and make the air feel bad to breathe. I hate the way they rise from bins, making a hum, and the way they loiter with intent around food. I hate the way they well up like thick black rain from hot faeces. I hate <i>&#8220;The Fly&#8221;<\/i> particularly when played by Goldblum. I hate the sight of maggots. I loathe those horrible hanging around hovering flies waiting to land. I detest the ones that start to move when they think you aren&#8217;t looking. I really hate the ones that land on you when you have your eyes closed.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/housefly_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flies our corpses consume.<\/p>\n<p>Flies are a reason I love winter.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/housefly-2.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate flies, I really hate them, particularly persistent ones that hang in a room and make the air feel bad to breathe. I hate the way they rise from bins, making a hum, and the way they loiter with intent around food. I hate the way they well up like thick black rain from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}