{"id":522,"date":"2008-04-21T23:45:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T05:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2008-04-23T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:45:13","slug":"kiss-an-earthworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Kiss an earthworm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Earth Day! I&#8217;ve started my under-the-counter earthworm composter (no big action yet, but it doesn&#8217;t smell bad, either, so I think things are working). Everyone in Toon Town was busy honoring the Earth, it seems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-mw-70.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-523\" title=\"not-mw-70\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-mw-70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-mw-70.jpg 950w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-mw-70-250x50.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<em>Vermicomposting update <\/em>(23 April): I couldn&#8217;t take it any longer and decided to see if the cupful of nightcrawlers from Wal-Mart were dead or alive, so I dug around in the compost bin with my bare hands (<em>ewww!<\/em>).  There are only a few worms (from what I could see), but Jiminy Christmas, one&#8217;s the size of a freakin&#8217; SAND WORM, and it moves as muscularly and determinedly as one of them! I should be getting my pound o&#8217; nightcrawlers in the mail today or tomorrow, so with any luck, I&#8217;m gonna be hip-deep in worm poop in very little time.  I might not be able to control the Spice, but I envision some degree of controlling the nightcrawler castings&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Earth Day! I&#8217;ve started my under-the-counter earthworm composter (no big action yet, but it doesn&#8217;t smell bad, either, so I think things are working). Everyone in Toon Town was busy honoring the Earth, it seems. [Vermicomposting update (23 April): I couldn&#8217;t take it any longer and decided to see if the cupful of nightcrawlers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryworth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}