{"id":298,"date":"2008-02-09T04:51:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-02-09T04:51:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T22:51:48","slug":"leeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/298","title":{"rendered":"Leeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying the 15 minute bushwalk I get every morning on the way to the station, but this rain is taking the fun out of it.  Three times this week, I&#8217;ve sat down on the train and settled in to read a book when my ankle began to itch.  Reaching down, each time I found a slimy critter getting ready to take a bite.  The looks I get from the other passengers are worse than the horror of finding a blood-sucking slug attaching itself to my flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying the 15 minute bushwalk I get every morning on the way to the station, but this rain is taking the fun out of it. Three times this week, I&#8217;ve sat down on the train and settled in to read a book when my ankle began to itch. Reaching down, each time I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/298\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leeches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}