{"id":282,"date":"2017-07-01T23:26:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T23:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:20:41","slug":"paquito-the-mosquito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Paquito the Mosquito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There\u2019s nothing more grotesque<br \/>\nThan a belligerent mosquito<br \/>\nStubbornly obsessed<br \/>\nLike the aggressor Gran Paquito<br \/>\nConsistently he carried out<br \/>\nNocturnal visitations<br \/>\nAnd his neighbourhood of victims<br \/>\nDisplayed scars of mutilations<br \/>\nHis vicious little tactics<br \/>\nCaught the best man quite off- guard<br \/>\nAnd kept him keenly scratching<br \/>\nThree days running avant-garde<br \/>\nGran Paquito saw himself<br \/>\nAs self-appointed Terminator<br \/>\nUntil a can of spray<br \/>\nBecame his own great perpetrator<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58\" src=\"http:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner.png\" alt=\"liner\" width=\"704\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner.png 704w, https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner-600x43.png 600w, https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner-300x22.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Photo: pixelio.de<\/p>\n<p>Copyright: Rosemary McGuire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing more grotesque Than a belligerent mosquito Stubbornly obsessed Like the aggressor Gran Paquito Consistently he carried out Nocturnal visitations And his neighbourhood of victims Displayed scars of mutilations His vicious little tactics Caught the best man quite off- guard And kept him keenly scratching Three days running avant-garde Gran Paquito saw himself As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-topics","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}