{"id":8987,"date":"2021-09-09T21:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2021-12-04T01:33:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T09:33:32","slug":"fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/09\/fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireflies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid in deep suburban New Jersey, there were summer nights where the front yard shimmered and glowed and shifted with thousands of moats of light created by fireflies! It was pure magic!<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen such a spectacle since the 1980s. Where have they gone? I&#8217;ve read reports that firefly populations are way down.<\/p>\n<p>My question to you: have you seen fireflies in the past few years? Where?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid in deep suburban New Jersey, there were summer nights where the front yard shimmered and glowed and shifted with thousands of moats of light created by fireflies! It was pure magic! I haven&#8217;t seen such a spectacle since the 1980s. Where have they gone? I&#8217;ve read reports that firefly populations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/9199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}