{"id":33,"date":"2011-02-16T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T09:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2011-02-17T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:05:48","slug":"some-of-the-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/some-of-the-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of the Sheep*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allegedly, it&#8217;s a good year for mozzies &#8211; the wet is leaving lots of little pools of standing water for them to breed in. Tiny little buggers, they wake up around dusk and go hunting. On locating a suitable victim, she (only the females do it) inserts her sneaky little proboscis and injects a local anaesthetic. After slucking up a spot of blood, she moves on a few centimeters and repeats the performance. A while later, you notice the itch. By then it&#8217;s far too late &#8211; the perpetrator is gone, and you&#8217;ve been devoured. My personal best is six bites in one night. They itch maddeningly for two or three days.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more than a nuisance. Up in the Far North, there&#8217;s an outbreak of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/queensland\/vicious-dengue-strain-spreads-in-queensland-20110216-1avjl.html\">Dengue Fever.<\/a> I&#8217;ll have two large scoops of Not Catching That, please. Time for some better living through chemistry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DEET\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DEET.svg_.png\" alt=\"DEET\" title=\"DEET.svg\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34\" srcset=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DEET.svg_.png 500w, http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DEET.svg_-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DEET. Blocks their little noses up a treat<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DEET\"><br \/>\nN,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide. <\/a>It binds to mozzie olfactory sensors, rendering them unable to smell us. Works a treat.<\/p>\n<p><small><small>*A hearty &#8216;Well Done&#8217; to the first person to understand this reference<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegedly, it&#8217;s a good year for mozzies &#8211; the wet is leaving lots of little pools of standing water for them to breed in. Tiny little buggers, they wake up around dusk and go hunting. On locating a suitable victim, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/some-of-the-sheep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brisbane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}