{"id":652,"date":"2019-03-01T02:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2021-12-09T23:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:25:41","slug":"molly-the-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Molly the Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Your drawer, jam-packed with knitwear and a very hungry moth<br>\nWill cause you almost certainly considerable wrath<br>\nIt&#8217;s the inconspicuous Molly, who with clandestine delight<br>\nAttacks your cherished cashmere until deep into the night.<br>\n<br>\nShe started her lifecycle as an egg on a small leaf<br>\nThen matured onto the next stage with such obvious relief<br>\nAs she hatched into a larva without any help at all<br>\nShe had to eat her eggshell &#8211; for her first nutritious haul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The next part of her journey was to form a safe cocoon<br>\nThen hang around judiciously till it seemed more opportune<br>\nOnce released from her snug bubble, she fluffed up her tiny wing<br>\nAnd set herself to find a mate for her first romantic spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">She&#8217;s not deliberately out to spoil your most prestigious piece<br>\nShe just requires a cosy spot to chomp away in peace<br>\nYou won&#8217;t catch her in the daytime, cos she doesn&#8217;t like the light,<br>\nBut never underestimate her progress in the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">If you want to send our Molly to her caring, heavenly Maker<br> Just pop your garment in the stove and you can gently bake her <br> She won&#8217;t survive the ordeal and maybe your garment neither<br> But at least she won&#8217;t offload her countless children on you either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"51\" src=\"http:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58\" 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\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Pexels.com \/ Anthony<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright: Rosemary McGuire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your drawer, jam-packed with knitwear and a very hungry moth Will cause you almost certainly considerable wrath It&#8217;s the inconspicuous Molly, who with clandestine delight Attacks your cherished cashmere until deep into the night. She started her lifecycle as an egg on a small leaf Then matured onto the next stage with such obvious relief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,41],"tags":[151,21,152],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals-in-rhyme","category-all-topics","category-poem","tag-molly-the-moth","tag-poem","tag-stove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}