{"id":1828,"date":"2007-05-26T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2013-05-04T01:51:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:51:33","slug":"brookfield-zoo-animals-love-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/brookfield-zoo-animals-love-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookfield Zoo Animals Love Cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/monkeyeatingbug.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/monkeyeatingbug.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Apologies to the cicada-challenged people reading this.<\/p>\n<p>There was a rumor going around that people could bring in 1 pound of cicadas to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookfieldzoo.org\/\">Brookfield Zoo<\/a> and receive five(!) bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I have confirmed with someone at the zoo that this is not the case.  They are not paying for cicadas, nor are they even taking them from an eager bug-toting public.  <\/p>\n<p>However, there is a grain of buggy truth in the rumor. Many zoo animals <span>are<\/span> eating the cicadas.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it even made the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/science\/articles\/2007\/05\/25\/cicadas_a_tasty_treat_for_zoo_animals\/\">national news<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies to the cicada-challenged people reading this. There was a rumor going around that people could bring in 1 pound of cicadas to the Brookfield Zoo and receive five(!) bucks. Sadly, I have confirmed with someone at the zoo that this is not the case. They are not paying for cicadas, nor are they even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/brookfield-zoo-animals-love-cicadas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brookfield Zoo Animals Love Cicadas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","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":[356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicadas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brookfield Zoo Animals Love Cicadas - SPLOTCHY<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/brookfield-zoo-animals-love-cicadas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brookfield Zoo Animals Love Cicadas - SPLOTCHY\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apologies to the cicada-challenged people reading this. 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