{"id":62382,"date":"2025-11-03T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62382"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:58:19","slug":"ticks-and-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62382","title":{"rendered":"Ticks and Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ticks_and_Eggs.jpg\" alt=\"Ticks and Eggs\" width=\"720\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ticks_and_Eggs.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ticks_and_Eggs-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you see a small pile of jelly balls like this in your garden, set them on fire or destroy it by soaking it in isopropyl alcohol. Wear gloves if you handle the nest! There are hundreds of tick eggs inside it. Better to be safe than sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you see a small pile of jelly balls like this in your garden, set them on fire or destroy it by soaking it in isopropyl alcohol. Wear gloves if you handle the nest! There are hundreds of tick eggs inside it. Better to be safe than sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62384,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382\/revisions\/62384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}