{"id":7793,"date":"2016-04-27T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:50:35","slug":"a-million-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7793","title":{"rendered":"A million legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days it is so hard to get going.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been sleeping well this week, and so I&#8217;m lazy all during the day. Nothing wrong with relaxing during vacation, but I also want to take advantage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/Internet\/FSE_DOCUMENTS\/stelprdb5350433.pdf\">many trails surrounding us here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I convinced myself to go for a short hike. \u00a0Just as I was heading out, I spotted\u00a0a millipede on the ground, curled up.<\/p>\n<p>I thought he was dead, but then I noticed his million legs were all moving. Like fur in the wind, except perfectly synchronized. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5oCY71QSzh8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I got back from my hike, the millipede had stopped moving. He was dead.<\/p>\n<p>Too many days, I feel like a dying millipede. Running with every leg I have, and getting nowhere except closer to death.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s penny is a 2007, the year I first saw one of these millipedes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days it is so hard to get going. I haven&#8217;t been sleeping well this week, and so I&#8217;m lazy all during the day. Nothing wrong with relaxing during vacation, but I also want to take advantage of the many trails surrounding us here. Finally I convinced myself to go for a short hike. \u00a0Just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7793\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A million legs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[18,939,938,841],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tress","tag-18","tag-activity","tag-millipede","tag-speed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7916,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}