{"id":200263,"date":"2021-05-26T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/26\/i-kind-of-like-the-frantically-mating-arthropods\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T00:17:00","slug":"i-kind-of-like-the-frantically-mating-arthropods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/26\/i-kind-of-like-the-frantically-mating-arthropods\/","title":{"rendered":"I Kind of Like the Frantically Mating Arthropods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring to the Brood X Cicadas, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the last time around, the volume is such that it does not penetrate the walls of my house, we moved a few miles north in the interim, and I find their calls kind of flutey.<\/p>\n<p>When we were down in Northwest Baltimore, they were loud enough to be physically painful at times. <\/p>\n<p>Charlie, on the other hand, finds it relentlessly desperate and filled with dread and .<\/p>\n<p>I explained to him that desperation and existential angst (my term, not his) are why creatures procreate in the first place:&nbsp; Having a progeny creates a legacy, and meaning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s awfully deeply philosophy for a bunch of frantically f%$#ing bugs, at least for me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an engineer, I don&#8217;t look for solutions to major problems of existence, I just try to get, &#8220;Close Enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring to the Brood X Cicadas, of course. Unlike the last time around, the volume is such that it does not penetrate the walls of my house, we moved a few miles north in the interim, and I find their calls kind of flutey. When we were down in Northwest Baltimore, they were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1178,1003,1075,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-nature","category-philosophy","category-sex","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}