{"id":17858,"date":"2013-08-10T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=17858"},"modified":"2013-08-01T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T23:34:54","slug":"helpless-female-against-the-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/helpless-female-against-the-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpless Female Against the Tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My life is<\/strong> like a movie. At least for me, anyway. It is full of excitement and unpredictability. There is occasionally blood. I get lost a lot and my husband has to frequently save me &#8230; from &#8230; myself. So, it is mostly a love story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However<\/strong>, there is sometimes a horror episode. That is how I categorize ticks. <em>Who<\/em> can see them and not shudder from the depths of their being?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I recently<\/strong> found it necessary to remove a tick from my dog. I would rather&#8230; no, let&#8217;s no go there. Each moment of horror is sufficient to itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I decided<\/strong> the experience might be useful for others to read about, or maybe I wanted to share my agony. So, I researched <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mydbsupply.com\/blog\/how-to-get-ticks-out-of-a-long-haired-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">information about ticks and wrote for D&amp;B Supply<\/a><\/span>. I am still recovering from the visual affects. And the sound of &#8230;. no, no, no&#8230;. trying to forget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But it <em>is<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>tick season and you may want to review the basics about ticks and how to get rid of them. Maybe if I think of it as a survival episode? But, I&#8217;m not terribly fond of those either. I know. Just call me The Exterminator. No plans for a sequel at present.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17865\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tick-removed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17865\" title=\"What the spot looked like right after the tick was removed from the dog's neck.\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tick-removed-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"What the spot looked like right after the tick was removed from the dog's neck.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tick-removed-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tick-removed-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What the spot looked like right after the tick was removed from the dog&#8217;s neck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life is like a movie. At least for me, anyway. It is full of excitement and unpredictability. There is occasionally blood. I get lost a lot and my husband has to frequently save me &#8230; from &#8230; myself. So, it is mostly a love story. However, there is sometimes a horror episode. That is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[10,19],"tags":[35,38,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}