{"id":2194,"date":"2006-07-30T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2006-07-30T16:15:43","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T21:15:43","slug":"ok-so-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2194","title":{"rendered":"Ok.  So now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was getting things set up for yesterday&#8217;s party, a bee landed on my nose.<\/p>\n<p>A bee.  A big fuzzy black and yellow bee.<\/p>\n<p>On my nose.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt took an awful lot of effort not to freak out.  The whole sensation was bizarre.  The only thing I can think of that might feel remotely like it would be if you were to take a toothbrush, yank 90% of the bristles out, and then have someone just lightly tap the end of your nose with the ragged remnants on the end of the brush.  They&#8217;ll also need to blow gently on your upper lip to simulate the breeze coming off of the wings.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they should do this while holding a red hot needle in their other hand, which they should jab right into one of your nostrils if you make any sudden moves.<\/p>\n<p>Swatting the thing aside, or blowing on it to dislodge it seemed like really good ways to either get stung, or to have a bee fly into my mouth.  Instead, I managed to kind of back away and &#8216;limbo&#8217; under it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was getting things set up for yesterday&#8217;s party, a bee landed on my nose. A bee. A big fuzzy black and yellow bee. On my nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}