{"id":687,"date":"2025-07-02T10:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=687"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:13:54","slug":"friend-who-fell-from-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"The friend who fell from the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rescue Hornet\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q7lzv1pKJp4?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<p>One fateful Saturday, a pair of sky warriors crashed to the ground, locked in battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They say every fight you can walk away from is a good fight. I guess that means our new friend had a good one indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her opponent, however, flew off. Because this is what victorious hornets do, after successfully shredding their rival\u2019s wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there she was &#8211; bruised and battered and suddenly pedestrian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under any ordinary circumstances, this would have meant she would be torn apart, limb by limb, by an army of gleeful ants. Unless she were lucky and a hungry bird got to her first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But these were no ordinary circumstances. Because the turf on which she landed was ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She may have lost the duel but she won our love, along with a life-time supply of sugar water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhuzhana, as we named her, was born a worker. But she ended up living like a queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#hornet #europeanhornet #Vespacrabro #pethornet #rescuedhornet #injuredhornet #rescue #feedinghornet #handfeeding #insectfeeding #insectrescue #insectlife #petinsect #zhuzhana #srsen #wetlands #vojnik #slovenia #neanderslavia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One fateful Saturday, a pair of sky warriors crashed to the ground, locked in battle. They say every fight you can walk away from is a good fight. I guess that means our new friend had a good one indeed. Her opponent, however, flew off. Because this is what victorious hornets do, after successfully shredding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The friend who fell from the skies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,142,129,128,17,114,12,25,84,94,157],"tags":[143,151,147,145,152,148,130,153,144,154,149,146,71,155,150,75,89,156],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-english","category-european-hornet","category-insectlife","category-insects","category-life-in-slovenia","category-neanderslavia","category-slovenia","category-videos","category-vojnik","category-wetlands","category-zhuzhana-the-hornet","tag-europeanhornet","tag-feedinghornet","tag-handfeeding","tag-hornet","tag-injuredhornet","tag-insectfeeding","tag-insectlife","tag-insectrescue","tag-pethornet","tag-petinsect","tag-rescue","tag-rescuedhornet","tag-slovenia","tag-srsen","tag-vespacrabro","tag-vojnik","tag-wetlands","tag-zhuzhana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}