{"id":773,"date":"2011-06-19T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/?p=773"},"modified":"2011-06-19T06:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T10:37:21","slug":"the-case-of-the-stinking-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/2011\/06\/19\/the-case-of-the-stinking-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CASE OF THE STINKING RAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few days there has been a horrible stench wafting from Elias\u2019 room into our living room and even further!  We have searched high and low for the source of the stench. Since we had found 2 dead rats in the bathroom on 2 consecutive days, it was our deduction that the third of the \u201c3 mouseketeers\u201d had likewise met his doom, but in a not so obvious location!  We went so far as to tear up the ceiling in search of the source of the stench without any luck.  (Nothing worse than a stinking house with guests to entertain!) Finally, when all else failed we went to our never-fail dead-rat-locator technique \u2013 large black flies.  The flies come to the window attracted by the stench. We open the window a crack and let a few in and within seconds they start flying around the exact location of the source of the stench!!  It\u2019s like they are little GPS mechanisms!! Works like a charm! Sure enough, we had the offending spot located and the offending remains removed within minutes!! After burning a few candles only a faint trace of \u201cdead\u201d is left and we will all sleep (and breathe) better tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few days there has been a horrible stench wafting from Elias\u2019 room into our living room and even further! We have searched high and low for the source of the stench. Since we had found 2 dead rats in the bathroom on 2 consecutive days, it was our deduction that the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}