{"id":2824,"date":"2013-12-25T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T12:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2014-01-06T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:34:11","slug":"ouch-i-was-attacked-by-red-ants-a-few-days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=2824","title":{"rendered":"Ouch!  I was attacked by red ants a few days ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were out and about on Saturday and I had some red ants climb up onto my left foot and leg and got some bites. \u00a0Some on my foot where any kind of shoe rubs against them, and some up my leg. \u00a0We counted 17 bites! \u00a0And BOY DO THEY HURT! \u00a0I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever experienced the kind of burning\/stinging sensation that they have caused. \u00a0It&#8217;s really painful. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been slathering on the calamine lotion which helps until something rubs against the bites, like a shoe or pant leg. \u00a0Then it starts up again.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of a few of them on my leg:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/my-red-ant-bites.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2825\" title=\"my red ant bites\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/my-red-ant-bites-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/my-red-ant-bites-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/my-red-ant-bites-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/my-red-ant-bites-60x39.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/my-red-ant-bites-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/my-red-ant-bites.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were out and about on Saturday and I had some red ants climb up onto my left foot and leg and got some bites. \u00a0Some on my foot where any kind of shoe rubs against them, and some up my leg. \u00a0We counted 17 bites! \u00a0And BOY DO THEY HURT! \u00a0I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=2824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ouch!  I was attacked by red ants a few days ago<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-56-central-florida","category-aboutus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}