{"id":2497,"date":"2014-11-14T19:57:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2014-11-14T19:57:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T00:57:55","slug":"grassroots-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/grassroots-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick post.\u00a0 A month or so back, I was out mowing the leaves (and a bit of grass), and I saw something moving quickly out of the way of the mower.\u00a0 It was about the same color as the grass.<\/p>\n<p>On closer inspection, it was a large praying mantis:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lawnmantis1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lawnmantis1-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"lawnmantis1\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lawnmantis1-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lawnmantis1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lawnmantis2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lawnmantis2-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"lawnmantis2\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lawnmantis2-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lawnmantis2.jpg 694w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I say &#8220;large,&#8221; I mean it was about 3 to 4 inches long.\u00a0 Some might be grossed out by this, but I am a fan of mantises (manti?).<\/p>\n<p>Next post: back to the England trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick post.\u00a0 A month or so back, I was out mowing the leaves (and a bit of grass), and I saw something moving quickly out of the way of the mower.\u00a0 It was about the same color as the grass. On closer inspection, it was a large praying mantis: When I say &#8220;large,&#8221; I &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/grassroots-prayer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}