{"id":158,"date":"2011-08-23T21:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T01:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=158"},"modified":"2011-08-26T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T23:15:04","slug":"bonechilling-ideas-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Bonechilling Ideas Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

As frequent readers will know, I’ve had a few terrifying<\/a> experiences <\/a>that will some day be short stories. \u00a0The latest may be the bone-chilliest yet, though. \u00a0It all began with my spotting a wasp in the bathroom, where it clearly did not belong. \u00a0I fetched a rolled-up newspaper, as one does in these circumstances, and took a mighty swing. \u00a0The wasp\u00a0completely\u00a0disappeared, leading me to\u00a0believe\u00a0that I might have vaporized it, but I took a look around to see if its crippled form was staggering about somewhere. \u00a0I had just about given up on the search when it announced the fact that it had managed to make its way over from the wall to cling to my very clothes. \u00a0I managed to get clear of the creature by hurling the article of clothing it was on across the room (I won’t go into what this was). \u00a0Then I left for more clothes and a heavy pair of gloves, ready to deal with this wasp once and for all, only to find that it had disappeared<\/em>, having survived a smack with a newspaper and a few rather frantic-barehanded slaps as well (this is why I don’t like wasps – I find it difficult to maintain my normal stoic\u00a0mien\u00a0when they land on me).<\/p>\n

So now I’ve got the John McClane of wasps roaming my house, plotting revenge<\/p>\n

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Yipee-ki-yay<\/p><\/div>\n

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I have dispatched my minions <\/a>to deal with him, but I’m not\u00a0particularly confident in their chances. \u00a0One of these days I’m going to get a bonechilling idea from a safe distance.<\/p>\n

Update: I found the McClane-wasp and finally dispatched him.\u00a0 At least I think it was the same wasp.\u00a0 A constant stream of new wasps popping up in my bathroom is an idea too terrifying to contemplate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As frequent readers will know, I’ve had a few terrifying experiences that will some day be short stories. \u00a0The latest may be the bone-chilliest yet, though. \u00a0It all began with my spotting a wasp in the bathroom, where it clearly did not belong. \u00a0I fetched a rolled-up newspaper, as one does in these circumstances, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonechilling-ideas","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}