{"id":30773,"date":"2023-07-05T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30773"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:25:13","slug":"i-have-a-problem-with-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/05\/i-have-a-problem-with-ct\/","title":{"rendered":"I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My family <\/strong><\/span>came across two ticks in Connecticut. The ticks got on my wife and daughter. We were in CT for a friend&#8217;s wedding, and after the wedding we spent\u00a0some time at a resort on the CT\/New York State border. My wife asked the concierge at the resort for a hiking trail. He sent\u00a0us to a nearby nature reserve; he didn\u2019t warn us about ticks.<\/p>\n<p>The only tick I&#8217;d ever seen &#8212; before that\u00a0 &#8212; was Tik Krieger, the late aunt of my friend Shelly Gordon. (Theresa &#8220;Tikvah&#8221; Krieger.)<\/p>\n<p>My family ran in a meadow in CT, like in a Wyeth painting. We lay in a field. It was idyllic. We were dumb about ticks. When we got back to the resort, Alice noticed a tick on her hip. She pulled the tick out with tweezers. (Let&#8217;s hear it for <em>tweezers<\/em> &#8212; the word.) Then Alice found a tick in our daughter&#8217;s hair. Alice got it out and accidentally dropped it back into Lucy\u2019s hair. Lucy wasn\u2019t happy about that. Lucy&#8217;s husband got out his iPhone flashlight, and he and Alice re-found the tick.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>We googled<\/strong><\/span> ticks. Everybody in CT knows a lot about ticks. CT is Tick World. On our way home &#8212; on the drive to LaGuardia &#8212; I read a front-page story about ticks in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. Ticks are very numerous this summer.<\/p>\n<p>I have a problem with CT. I don\u2019t like its size (too small), its spelling (too complicated), or its wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><em>btw, we&#8217;re OK.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My family came across two ticks in Connecticut. The ticks got on my wife and daughter. We were in CT for a friend&#8217;s wedding, and after the wedding we spent\u00a0some time at a resort on the CT\/New York State border. My wife asked the concierge at the resort for a hiking trail. He sent\u00a0us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30773"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30841,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions\/30841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}