{"id":857,"date":"2024-04-27T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=857"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:43:43","slug":"cockroaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Cockroaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Florida &#8220;palmetto bugs&#8221; are in your face.<br \/>\nHawaii&#8217;s giant flying roaches land on you.<br \/>\nCockroaches are everywhere but out in space;<br \/>\nthe German ones ubiquitous, and never few.<br \/>\nThey seem to bounce right back from being stomped and squished.<br \/>\nThey laugh at radiation levels that should kill.<br \/>\nThey taste your gourmet meal before it&#8217;s even dished,<br \/>\nright after wallowing in steaming septic swill.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve lots in common with us apex predators,<br \/>\ndevouring everything, our hunger never fed,<br \/>\nor with the agents of our commerce: creditors.<br \/>\nThey will be here long after other life is dead.<br \/>\nThey can survive ordeals that reason says they couldn&#8217;t,<br \/>\nor that, I sometimes feel,\u00a0 like <em>Homo sap<\/em>., they shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Florida &#8220;palmetto bugs&#8221; are in your face. Hawaii&#8217;s giant flying roaches land on you. Cockroaches are everywhere but out in space; the German ones ubiquitous, and never few. They seem to bounce right back from being stomped and squished. They laugh at radiation levels that should kill. They taste<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=857\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}