{"id":3420,"date":"2008-05-08T07:07:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T12:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2008-05-08T07:07:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T12:07:53","slug":"stand_clear_of_the_cimex_lectularius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/stand_clear_of_the_cimex_lectularius.html","title":{"rendered":"Stand Clear Of The Cimex Lectularius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just your grubby friends and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,26334,1554390,00.html\">Maya Rudolph&#8217;s couches<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05082008\/news\/regionalnews\/subways_blood_bug_invasion_109879.htm\">they&#8217;re on the subway, too<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At a recent Department of Housing, Preservation and Development forum on the subject, a city bedbug educator admitted to seeing the pests on benches in subway stations &#8212; in one case, catching a ride on an unsuspecting straphanger&#8217;s caboose at Brooklyn&#8217;s Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, according to people at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The official, identified as Edward Brownbear, also reported seeing the bugs on wooden benches at the Union Square and Fordham Road stations in Manhattan and The Bronx, respectively.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just your grubby friends and Maya Rudolph&#8217;s couches &#8212; they&#8217;re on the subway, too: At a recent Department of Housing, Preservation and Development forum on the subject, a city bedbug educator admitted to seeing the pests on benches in subway stations &#8212; in one case, catching a ride on an unsuspecting straphanger&#8217;s caboose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}