{"id":226,"date":"2006-07-31T02:25:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T08:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2006-07-31T02:28:51","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T08:28:51","slug":"why-slugs-make-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/why-slugs-make-me-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Slugs Make Me Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"207\" align=\"left\" id=\"image225\" alt=\"DSC00750.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/DSC00750.jpg\" \/>Slugs make me happy. And I know you&#8217;re on the edge of your seat to know why. Everytime I see a slug I&#8217;m reminded that I&#8217;m back in the Pacific Northwest &#8211; and I really love it up here.<\/p>\n<p>I remember as a kid hunting slugs (I wasn&#8217;t very fast) so I could drown them in salt. I have given up this barbaric practice for more peaceful ways, but have recently found out that some family members still enjoy the salt ritual. Mmmm&#8230;..apples don&#8217;t fall far from the trees, do they?<\/p>\n<p>I also remember my sister telling me stories of a friend of hers as a kid that would eat slugs. Sure enough I brought up the subject of slugs at church today and was treated to a graphic story about someone&#8217;s childhood friend that ate slugs. Am I the only one who has never seen someone eat a slug? I feel like I&#8217;ve missed out.<\/p>\n<p>There were also high tech slug experiments carried out in my youth. And I can tell you from repeated scientific experiments under controlled settings, that the guts do indeed pop out of the opposite end you step on. Eewwww&#8230;..you didn&#8217;t want to read that did you? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Good to be back in Washington. Where all slugs are welcome to roam freely and follow their dreams&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.(just watch out for the salt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slugs make me happy. And I know you&#8217;re on the edge of your seat to know why. Everytime I see a slug I&#8217;m reminded that I&#8217;m back in the Pacific Northwest &#8211; and I really love it up here. I remember as a kid hunting slugs (I wasn&#8217;t very fast) so I could drown them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-3E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}