{"id":859,"date":"2006-08-25T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=859"},"modified":"2012-06-13T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T13:02:28","slug":"giant-mantis-invades-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/25\/giant-mantis-invades-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant mantis invades Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.360cities.net\/image\/the-giant-praying-mantis-invasion-in-prague-czech-republic-by-jeffrey-martin#81.10,1.50,55.0\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/prague.jpg\" alt=\"prague.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1857989953\/026-3749033-0050804\" target=\"_blank\">Viriconium<\/a> comes to life&#8230; Or should that be VR-conium? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.360cities.net\/image\/the-giant-praying-mantis-invasion-in-prague-czech-republic-by-jeffrey-martin#81.10,1.50,55.0\" target=\"_blank\">360\u00ba panorama of this event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A giant praying mantis invaded Old Town Square in Prague today at 8:15 pm to the delight of hundreds of human onlookers, and a few horses too. The humanoid invaders, on extended springy legs, drove their giant insect through the Old Town amid fireballs and deep heavy funk grooves. The police stood by, trying to direct the bug to more peaceful environs, as many of the grumpier tourists nearby were rather put off their expensive goulash and roasted duck.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letniletna.cz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Letni Letna<\/a> circus theater festival has come to Prague again! If you are in the area, the giant bug will be making another appearance, as well as plenty of other slightly perverse and zany acts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-panoramas-archive\/\">The panoramas archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/01\/paris-iii-le-grande-repertoire-machines-de-spectacle\/\">Paris III: Le Grande R\u00e9pertoire\u2014Machines de Spectacle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viriconium comes to life&#8230; Or should that be VR-conium? 360\u00ba panorama of this event. A giant praying mantis invaded Old Town Square in Prague today at 8:15 pm to the delight of hundreds of human onlookers, and a few horses too. The humanoid invaders, on extended springy legs, drove their giant insect through the Old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/25\/giant-mantis-invades-prague\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giant mantis invades Prague&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,51,21,12,46],"tags":[141,269,146,2232],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cities","category-fantasy","category-photography","category-theatre","tag-insects","tag-panoramas","tag-prague","tag-viriconium"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-dR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}