{"id":2364,"date":"2014-01-29T17:34:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2014-01-29T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T16:35:07","slug":"suture-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2014\/01\/29\/suture-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Suture anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone ever told you about driver\u2019s ants\u2019 back-up job when they get tired of running in marching formation eating everything in sight, live or dead?\u00a0 They will give up their lives to be suture \u2013 if you line them up properly over whatever it is you want clamped shut, they\u2019ll chomp down and they\u2019ll lose their heads before they\u2019ll let go.\u00a0 I once had a hitchhiking driver\u2019s ant\u2019s head on my flipflop \u2013 I\u2019m not even sure how long it had been there before I noticed it.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s brave Timothy Chapman, taking the pain of these pincers so you can see how it works!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/01\/5-blog-suture-anyone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2368\" alt=\"5 blog suture anyone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/01\/5-blog-suture-anyone.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/01\/5-blog-suture-anyone.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/01\/5-blog-suture-anyone-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/01\/5-blog-suture-anyone2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2369\" alt=\"5 blog suture anyone2\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/01\/5-blog-suture-anyone2.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/01\/5-blog-suture-anyone2.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/01\/5-blog-suture-anyone2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=2364&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone ever told you about driver\u2019s ants\u2019 back-up job when they get tired of running in marching formation eating everything in sight, live or dead?\u00a0 They will give up their lives to be suture \u2013 if you line them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2014\/01\/29\/suture-anyone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suture anyone? 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