{"id":6211,"date":"2010-11-04T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2010-11-04T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:44:10","slug":"three_plagues_down_seven_to_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/11\/three_plagues_down_seven_to_go.html","title":{"rendered":"Three Plagues Down, Seven To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, rule of threes, we&#8217;re ready for our trend piece &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/dont_let_the.html\">bed bugs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2010\/10\/stinkbugs_now_c.php\">stink bugs<\/a> and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/queens\/termites_take_power_in_qns_93Xurj3VrGEe6cEfFmVpBJ\">termites<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Termites took down a series of utility poles in Queens yesterday, cutting power to 60 Con Ed customers and smashing a car.<\/p>\n<p>In a feat of steady chewing that could have taken months, the termites finally finished their meal of a utility pole in Springfield Gardens just before noon.<\/p>\n<p>When that one fell, it took down five more wired to it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, rule of threes, we&#8217;re ready for our trend piece &#8212; bed bugs, stink bugs and now termites: Termites took down a series of utility poles in Queens yesterday, cutting power to 60 Con Ed customers and smashing a car. In a feat of steady chewing that could have taken months, the termites finally finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,46,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible","category-quality_of_life","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","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=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}