{"id":633,"date":"2022-04-09T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/?p=633"},"modified":"2022-04-09T20:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:09:10","slug":"praying-mantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/praying-mantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying Mantis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A praying mantis is an interesting insect. It can turn its head a full 180 degrees and has only 1 (on its belly) or no ears. Its name comes from the word, <em>mantikos<\/em>, for soothsayer or prophet. It looks like a mysterious or spiritual creature. Maybe that is why kung fu has a mantis position in it.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/75EC1489-C41C-427C-B494-FCACA21A5CBF.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1843\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/75EC1489-C41C-427C-B494-FCACA21A5CBF.jpeg 1000w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/75EC1489-C41C-427C-B494-FCACA21A5CBF-300x281.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/75EC1489-C41C-427C-B494-FCACA21A5CBF-768x718.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"983\" height=\"894\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/926792ED-4C4F-4048-9EE0-5337B138B145.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1844\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/926792ED-4C4F-4048-9EE0-5337B138B145.jpeg 983w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/926792ED-4C4F-4048-9EE0-5337B138B145-300x273.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/926792ED-4C4F-4048-9EE0-5337B138B145-768x698.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"993\" height=\"940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/30938694-E7C0-44C7-B2FA-ACD75FC9A470.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1845\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/30938694-E7C0-44C7-B2FA-ACD75FC9A470.jpeg 993w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/30938694-E7C0-44C7-B2FA-ACD75FC9A470-300x284.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/30938694-E7C0-44C7-B2FA-ACD75FC9A470-768x727.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A praying mantis is an interesting insect. It can turn its head a full 180 degrees and has only 1 (on its belly) or no ears. Its name comes from the word, mantikos, for soothsayer or prophet. It looks like a mysterious or spiritual creature. Maybe that is why kung fu has a mantis position&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/praying-mantis\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[556,565],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}