{"id":682,"date":"2025-06-18T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=682"},"modified":"2025-06-18T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:54:16","slug":"the-snail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"The Snail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Elderly Snail (mini)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8qRh0mLQQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Garden snails are native to the Mediterranean<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But they\u2019ve travelled as far as California and Australia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(People being followed by snails is a real thing.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Growing snails on purpose is called heliciculture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Growing them by accident is called good biodiversity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If snails threaten your garden, make it firefly-friendly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Because fireflies eat snails and slugs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So do frogs, lizards and birds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or you can eat the snails yourself<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They\u2019re a good source of protein &#8211; and parasitic worms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I prefer biodiversity to gastronomy, but you do you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,17,114,25,84,94],"tags":[136,137,135,133,132,71,75,134,89],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-english","category-life-in-slovenia","category-neanderslavia","category-videos","category-vojnik","category-wetlands","tag-cornuaspersum","tag-cryptomphalusaspersus","tag-gardensnail","tag-helixaspersa","tag-naturereserve","tag-slovenia","tag-vojnik","tag-vrtnipolz","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}