{"id":170,"date":"2006-09-06T03:04:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T08:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/06\/baby-scorpion\/"},"modified":"2006-09-06T03:04:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T08:04:20","slug":"baby-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"baby scorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what I found in my bathroom tonight. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/09-06-06_0048-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"09-06-06_0048.jpg\" height=\"96\" width=\"128\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Just a very little guy, but acting very tough. I took another photo by a pen for scale.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/09-06-06_0050-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"09-06-06_0050.jpg\" height=\"96\" width=\"128\" \/> I shooed him into an empty yogurt container. I guess I&#8217;ll keep him until Bella sees him tomorrow. I&#8217;ve never been bit by a scorpion, but apparently it is not deadly, so much as painful &#8211; like a bad bee sting.<\/p>\n<p>I had a friend once who picked scorpions up by the tail. His hand would hover over the scorpion (and in a terrarium they seem angrier) and snap forward to pinch the tail between his index finger and thumb. I don&#8217;t know if I actually ever saw him do this, or if he just did a really good job of describing the process to me. His name was Chaz. It helped me to be less afraid of scorpions, but I still don&#8217;t want to touch them.<\/p>\n<p>Cool tip about scorpions; they glow under a black light &#8211; so scorpion hunters overturn rocks and logs at night using a black light flashlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what I found in my bathroom tonight. \u00c2\u00a0 Just a very little guy, but acting very tough. I took another photo by a pen for scale. I shooed him into an empty yogurt container. I guess I&#8217;ll keep &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desert-creatures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}