{"id":279,"date":"2008-03-28T03:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T08:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-03-28T03:41:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T08:41:42","slug":"unwelcomed-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"unwelcomed visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was very warm and provided an opportunity to work long on the yard. I spent hours at Mesquite Valley Nursery and brought home a number of new plants, including 3 new bougainvilleas. The apricot tree seems to be doing well and we actually have some apricots growing now. The orange tree continues to struggle. I dug around the base of the tree to determine if anything unusual was going on and found some of the soil was really strange &#8211; somewhat gooey. I dug up much of the soil and in the process found an ugly white larvae. I have no idea what this thing would eventually turn into, but I wasn&#8217;t about to allow it to grow any older. When I smashed it, white goo came out as if it had been filled with milk. Yummy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/unwelcomed-visitor.jpg\" title=\"unwelcomed-visitor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/unwelcomed-visitor.jpg\" alt=\"unwelcomed-visitor.jpg\" height=\"329\" width=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was very warm and provided an opportunity to work long on the yard. I spent hours at Mesquite Valley Nursery and brought home a number of new plants, including 3 new bougainvilleas. The apricot tree seems to be doing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=279\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casa","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}