{"id":1284,"date":"2026-05-10T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:04:28","slug":"the-slug-wars-are-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/the-slug-wars-are-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slug Wars are Over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I hereby declare victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/my-war-with-slugs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/my-war-with-slugs\/\">The Slug Wars<\/a>.  Today I have eaten my first full-sized ripe strawberry.  The victory came by way of realizing I should raise my containers off the ground.  It only took one day of picking off slugs and pill bugs to realize the dream.  And I have yet to see another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tower defense fortification has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/p\/taernoe-table-outdoor-black-light-brown-stained-70095429\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/p\/taernoe-table-outdoor-black-light-brown-stained-70095429\/\">come by way of IKEA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now let&#8217;s wait to see if we get a second strawberry.  Will the Council of Elder Slugs meet and formulate a new strategy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The saga continues&#8230;<\/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\/05\/TheWarIsOver-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TheWarIsOver-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TheWarIsOver-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TheWarIsOver-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TheWarIsOver-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TheWarIsOver-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby declare victory over The Slug Wars. Today I have eaten my first full-sized ripe strawberry. The victory came by way of realizing I should raise my containers off the ground. It only took one day of picking off slugs and pill bugs to realize the dream. And I have yet to see another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1285,"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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","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=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}