{"id":121879,"date":"2025-07-28T20:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=121879"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:37:34","slug":"monday-night-beetles-boys-and-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/07\/28\/monday-night-beetles-boys-and-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; beetles, boys and bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After work we were sittign outside having dinner when I spotted this huge beetle walkign across our yard.. he was a handsome fella\u00a0<br \/>.. and very persistant.. luckily not camera shy<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"121882\" 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