{"id":3309,"date":"2021-03-15T03:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T03:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2021-03-15T03:52:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T03:52:42","slug":"americans-brace-for-billion-bug-invasion-that-happens-every-17-yearssouth-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"Americans brace for billion-bug invasion that happens every 17 yearsSouth China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThey have spent close to two decades buried underground, waiting for the right moment to emerge \u2013 before pouring forth by the billions, filling the air with an ear-piercing racket and covering walls and floors from the US east coast to the Midwest.No, it\u2019s not a horror film \u2013 well, not exactly \u2013 but rather the regular, if very infrequent, arrival of the cicada, a thumb-sized insect with alarmingly wide-set eyes and membranous wings.Their unnerving arrival is as spectacular as it is rare. Every\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3125438\/americans-brace-billion-bug-invasion-happens-every\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThey have spent close to two decades buried underground, waiting for the right moment to emerge \u2013 before pouring forth by the billions, filling the air&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}