{"id":920,"date":"2008-06-03T15:21:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T05:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/03\/caterpillar-rampage\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T05:23:05","slug":"caterpillar-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/03\/caterpillar-rampage\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar Rampage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News broke today of a rampaging caterpillar in Columbus, Ohio! It apparently left a trail of destruction through the city.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>COLUMBUS, OH\u2014A ravenous caterpillar escaped from captivity today, wreaking havoc as it devoured everything in its sight and carved a half-centimeter path of destruction across the city, horrified sources reported.<\/p>\n<p>Confined to a glass viewing chamber since late May, the savage creature reportedly broke free from its bedside enclosure before slithering out of an open window and charging wildly toward the city&#8217;s unsuspecting commercial district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came back home and it was gone,&#8221; said 8-year-old resident Daniel Bogen, whose hubris and reckless abandon has unleashed a terror of immeasurable proportions onto the community. &#8220;I thought I twisted the lid on the jar real tight. Where did it go?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stretching out to a monstrous 75 millimeters, the beast&#8217;s segmented body left behind a swath of devastation as it uprooted entire blades of grass, snapped whole clover stems in half with a single bite from its jaws, and marauded past residential structures helpless against its larval fury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--[image:80592]-->Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/80542\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News broke today of a rampaging caterpillar in Columbus, Ohio! It apparently left a trail of destruction through the city. COLUMBUS, OH\u2014A ravenous caterpillar escaped from captivity today, wreaking havoc as it devoured everything in its sight and carved a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/03\/caterpillar-rampage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}