{"id":1212,"date":"2026-04-10T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:24:36","slug":"slugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/slugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Slugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welp.  There goes a newly germinated squash seedling.  Thank you, slugs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slugs-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slugs-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slugs-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slugs-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slugs-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slugs-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I unlucky for having my brand new plants destroyed?  I don&#8217;t think so.  First of all, I wasn&#8217;t even sure what was eating them and now I know for sure.  And that happened because it started raining and I honestly don&#8217;t know what made me go check on plants <em>while it was raining<\/em> when I already knew they were destroyed.  And there they were, caught in the act.  I have a feeling these guys only come out at night.  It&#8217;s much too hot and dry during the day.  It hardly ever rains where I live.  I&#8217;m lucky that I went to check for some reason.  I don&#8217;t even know why.  Was it intuition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, now that I know for sure what is happening, I will be able to work towards the right solution.  That&#8217;s lucky!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotta keep on Luck Factoring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp. There goes a newly germinated squash seedling. Thank you, slugs. Am I unlucky for having my brand new plants destroyed? I don&#8217;t think so. First of all, I wasn&#8217;t even sure what was eating them and now I know for sure. And that happened because it started raining and I honestly don&#8217;t know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}