{"id":29940,"date":"2021-09-02T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29940"},"modified":"2021-09-02T03:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:58:59","slug":"profiles-of-nature-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/09\/profiles-of-nature-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles of Nature 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0902Scowt.jpg\" alt=\"maybe house fly Scowt captured by assassin bug\" width=\"750\" height=\"938\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29941\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>No, there have been no attempts on our life at all this past week, and we&#8217;re an easy target. Sorry you wasted your money.<\/p>\n<p>This week we have Scowt (the one on the left,) whose parents maintain that it&#8217;s one of those creative spellings but really just can&#8217;t spell. Scowt realizes that, upon agreeing to become a graphic novel illustrator&#8217;s model, he probably should have looked up &#8216;hentai&#8217; first &#8211; he&#8217;s totally given up on calamari, we can tell you that. His story is an interesting one<strong>:<\/strong> his parents were following a fishing trawler on its way to the Lesser Antilles when his egg was laid in the offal of a dolphin, but one of the acceptable ones. As a maggot, he soon rose above the others in his class and was recognized for his remarkably bloated physique, making him immensely popular and bringing him to the eye of a roving talent scout (thus) as he was working after-eating in the local sushi bar. From there, he took the body-building world by storm and won award after award in competitions across the globe, and since we&#8217;re continuing the housefly theme we&#8217;re not even going to tell you what <em>kind<\/em> of competitions<strong>;<\/strong> you can thank us later (tip jar over there on the sidebar.) But fame has a dark side, and Scowt soon found himself hanging with a bunch of teenage praying mantises, going door-to-door and asking if people had been saved in that smarmy way. Luckily, he found a good woman who recognized the warmth in his soul and helped him get his life back on track, walking on dead things and getting stuck in half-open windows, and so he would have <em>no reason<\/em> to be hanging around a girls&#8217; school and making lewd propositions. Like we said, this is his story, but the jury isn&#8217;t looking too convinced and he&#8217;s liable to have to take a plea &#8211; his attorney doesn&#8217;t care because she gets paid either way. Scowt&#8217;s favorite episode of <em>Wild Wild West<\/em> is the one with the hypnotism.<\/p>\n<p>Join us next week or those pics go straight to the local newspapers. Whatever those are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, there have been no attempts on our life at all this past week, and we&#8217;re an easy target. Sorry you wasted your money. This week we have Scowt (the one on the left,) whose parents maintain that it&#8217;s one of those creative spellings but really just can&#8217;t spell. Scowt realizes that, upon agreeing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[6379,6382,6381,6380],"class_list":["post-29940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo","tag-his-brothers-name-is-rainjer","tag-ladies-and-gentlemen-is-this-the-face-of-a-parasite","tag-probably-a-house-fly-youre-not-here-for-the-species-identification","tag-the-week-before-that-however"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}