I have nothing against flies per se. I mean, I’m sure they serve some useful
\npurpose in nature. Like climbing all over food that’s been left out while
\nregurgitating onto whatever they’re eating part of their last meal, which
\nmany times consists of garbage or dung. But I harbor these swift insects no
\nill will in general, provided they’re not harassing me with constant buzzing
\nor biting me or my animals. So long as they stay out of sight and sound,
\nthey are safe from my vengeance. But woe be it to the tiny flying animal I
\nfind within my vacinity.<\/p>\n
The Bremers’ have a multiplicity of fly swatters. My house has one, which I
\ncan never find when I need it and so am usually forced to resort to a rolled
\nup sheet of newspaper. But insects rarely find their way into my house,
\nwell, flying insects, that is. We seem to have our fair share of roaches.
\n But<\/p>\n
(A slight pause while I answer the ringing phone, have a short conversation
\nin which the caller and I acknowledge predicting each being on the other end
\nof the line, spotting a fat black fly, retrieving a fly swatter from its
\nroost on top of the fridge, and swatting the poor sucker into a window pane,
\nbefore handing the phone to someone else.)<\/p>\n
But…
\n—
\nBut after writing this much I went to a picnic (where I consumed a hamburger,
\nSprite, and Cheetoes and played volley ball with cadets), the airport, made
\nrhubarb pies, watched a movie and shot off a bunch of fire works. So I
\ndidn’t have much time to write about the day’s events.<\/p>\n
We’re leaving for home tomorrow, probably around noon, and it’s after 2 now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have nothing against flies per se. I mean, I’m sure they serve some useful purpose in nature. Like climbing all over food that’s been left out while regurgitating onto whatever they’re eating part of their last meal, which many times consists of garbage or dung. But I harbor these swift insects no ill will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}