{"id":600,"date":"2008-10-03T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2008-09-04T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T16:45:50","slug":"the-mosquito-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/the-mosquito-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"The mosquito loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever notice how, if you get a mosquito in your bedroom, it will sometimes buzz right by your ear? I suspect this is an evolved survival mechanism to check if you are asleep. If you&#8217;re awake and they start sucking your blood, you&#8217;ll probably notice and squish them. If you&#8217;re not asleep it&#8217;s almost impossible to avoid reacting when they buzz past your ear. So, as you&#8217;re trying to fall asleep they will buzz past your ear every once in a while and only start to go for your ankles if you don&#8217;t react.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is, some people (like me) are light sleepers and get woken up by these fly-pasts. This causes a loop as I start to drift off to sleep, get buzzed awake, swat the mosquito away and repeat. No meal for the mosquito, but no sleep for me either. Last time I got a mosquito in the bedroom I went through a few cycles of this and then tried to find it for a while and but eventually gave up and had to go to sleep in another room. The next day I found it on a wall and squished it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever notice how, if you get a mosquito in your bedroom, it will sometimes buzz right by your ear? I suspect this is an evolved survival mechanism to check if you are asleep. If you&#8217;re awake and they start sucking your blood, you&#8217;ll probably notice and squish them. If you&#8217;re not asleep it&#8217;s almost impossible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}