{"id":1552,"date":"2010-04-06T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2010-04-06T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:36:30","slug":"the-day-of-the-locust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/the-day-of-the-locust\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day of the Locust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;They\u2019re voracious, they\u2019re costly, and they\u2019re coming \u2013 again. Grasshoppers are expected to swarm Western states this summer in record numbers, gobbling up grasslands and costing cattle owners millions of dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Agriculture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2010\/0406\/Grasshopper-invasion-just-what-Western-states-don-t-want\">(USDA) found an unusually high number of grasshoppers in its annual survey of the flying grass-eaters last fall. If the weather is warm in the coming weeks, the countless eggs laid by the grasshopper could turn into an epic infestation across Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, and South Dakota.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pass the Cutter.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the Christian Science Monitor &#8211; &#8220;They\u2019re voracious, they\u2019re costly, and they\u2019re coming \u2013 again. Grasshoppers are expected to swarm Western states this summer in record numbers, gobbling up grasslands and costing cattle owners millions of dollars.&#8221; The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) found an unusually high number of grasshoppers in its annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}