{"id":6044,"date":"2024-04-29T19:52:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2024-04-29T19:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:52:29","slug":"once-in-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/04\/29\/once-in-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Once In A Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a once-in-a-221-year-event, the simultaneous emergence of two different cicada broods. One was the 13-year group. The other, the 17-year variety. So, as predicted, a trillion cicadas emerged, one-by-one, from the warming soil. Sam and Waldo were two such cicadas. <\/p>\n

“Can you believe it?”<\/p>\n

“What, Sam?”<\/p>\n

“We’re In the southeastern United States.”<\/p>\n

“What a racket.”<\/p>\n

Cicadas make noise through a special organ, a tymbal.<\/p>\n

“What?”<\/p>\n

It was increasingly hard to hear.<\/p>\n

“HEY, WALDO?”<\/p>\n

“YEAH.”<\/p>\n

“I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SAY IT.”<\/p>\n

“WHAT?”<\/p>\n

“I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU…BUT AFTER 221 YEARS, I THOUGHT IT’D BE A LOT BETTER THAN THIS.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor David Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a once-in-a-221-year-event, the simultaneous emergence of two different cicada broods. One was the 13-year group. The other, the 17-year variety. So, as predicted, a trillion cicadas emerged, one-by-one, from the warming soil. Sam and Waldo were two such cicadas. “Can you believe it?” “What, Sam?” “We’re In the southeastern United States.” “What a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12633,12632,5636,11783,12631,7302,6217,41,3669,2233,12635,12634,4123,12321,12636,695],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-broods","tag-cicada","tag-cicadas","tag-david-sydney","tag-emergence","tag-event","tag-group","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lifetime","tag-noise","tag-organ","tag-racket","tag-soil","tag-trillion","tag-tymbal","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}