{"id":14,"date":"2017-05-30T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2017-06-11T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T22:08:03","slug":"scorpions-are-a-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-are-a-way-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpions are a way of life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We chose to live in the desert and therefore we choose to live with the consequences. One of those consequences are scorpions.<\/p>\n<p>We get surprised once in a while like this morning &#8211; most of the time they are dead and other times they are only mostly dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-are-a-way-of-life\/img_2731-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3024,4032\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1496132922&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_2731.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?fit=525%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?w=3024&amp;ssl=1 3024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_2731.jpg?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have been pretty lucky so far and we have the house sprayed monthly with some really good stuff (thank you Robert!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really not a big deal. I would suspect that most areas of the country have special issues they deal with based on where they live!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We chose to live in the desert and therefore we choose to live with the consequences. One of those consequences are scorpions. We get surprised once in a while like this morning &#8211; most of the time they are dead and other times they are only mostly dead. We have been pretty lucky so far &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-are-a-way-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scorpions are a way of life&#8230;&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desert-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8MROt-e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":245,"url":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-in-january\/","url_meta":{"origin":14,"position":0},"title":"Scorpions in January","author":"bradschauf","date":"January 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The great thing about living in Arizona is that while most other areas of the country are complaining about the cold, snow and spending $500 a week on propane to heat the house for someone who really can't even ever get warm, we don't have those particular complaints. 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