{"id":716,"date":"2006-06-08T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2006-06-08T12:30:54","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:30:54","slug":"giant-hornets-yes-but-i-call-them-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/giant-hornets-yes-but-i-call-them-sir\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Hornets, yes, but I call them &#8220;Sir&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this doesn&#8217;t give you a huge case of the willies, then I say you are dead inside.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vespa-crabro.de\/manda.htm\">Asian Giant Hornet<\/a> is big big big, scary big.  Movie big.  Man.  From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;this gigantic, voracious predator has a quarter-inch stinger (6.35mm)! People are usually not the Japanese giant hornet&#8217;s prey, but those who have felt its sting describe the pain as excruciating and very painful&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ya think?  Jayyysus.  Crap on a stick.  I don&#8217;t like it, nossir.  Brrrrhoooahh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this doesn&#8217;t give you a huge case of the willies, then I say you are dead inside. The Asian Giant Hornet is big big big, scary big. Movie big. Man. From the link: &#8220;this gigantic, voracious predator has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/giant-hornets-yes-but-i-call-them-sir\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-by","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}