{"id":2218,"date":"2002-09-10T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2002-09-11T03:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2002-09-10T20:20:45","modified_gmt":"2002-09-11T03:20:45","slug":"craneflies-its-whats-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/09\/10\/craneflies-its-whats-for-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Craneflies:  It&#8217;s What&#8217;s For Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of tasty snacks, the advent of fall can only mean one thing in the Baldwin household:  a tenfold increase in insect consumption.  Our home tends to be one big moth-attended rave all year &#8217;round, and autumn brings a steady influx of delicious-and-nutritious <a href='http:\/\/whatcom.wsu.edu\/cranefly\/'>craneflies<\/a>, to the great delight of our cat.   As Louie sees it, nature has provided him with an unlimited supply of winged kitty treats:  they are the same size and consistency as the storebrand snacks, plus they have a satisfyingly crunchy outer shell, <i>plus<\/i> they swoop provocatively around the room before allowing themselves to masticated!  It&#8217;s win-win, unless you factor in the insect, in which case it&#8217;s &#8220;lose-win-win&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As Louie is strictly an indoor cat, this is the only hunting he gets to engage in.  But he couldn&#8217;t be prouder of his kills.  He will often come trotting into the room with his tail in the air and half a dozen legs sticking out of his mouth.  Or we will find him in a corner somewhere, picking his teeth with antennae.  I suspect that, at some point, Louie was bitten by a radioactive spider, thereby gaining the proportional appetite and diet of a spider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of tasty snacks, the advent of fall can only mean one thing in the Baldwin household: a tenfold increase in insect consumption. Our home tends to be one big moth-attended rave all year &#8217;round, and autumn brings a steady influx of delicious-and-nutritious craneflies, to the great delight of our cat. As Louie sees it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}