{"id":37,"date":"2006-03-25T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thereforeiam.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/25\/republic-of-singapore-mosquito-force\/"},"modified":"2006-03-25T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T06:05:08","slug":"republic-of-singapore-mosquito-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/2006\/03\/republic-of-singapore-mosquito-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Singapore Mosquito Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mosquitoes over at Lim Chu Kang are sure damn fierce&#8230; Had a two day exercise there on Thursday and Friday and didn&#8217;t slept a wink on Thursday night&#8230; The mosquitoes were all over me, literally&#8230; I tried applying SAF insect repellent, didn&#8217;t work&#8230; Smoke out, didn&#8217;t work. Those damn things are pretty persistent. Not only the bites were irritating, their incessant buzzing around were too much&#8230; Simply too much&#8230; Ended up having to put on ear plugs before I get about an hour of sleep before day break&#8230; One of the worst night of my life&#8230; Their bites are extra potent too&#8230; My lips were super swollen at daybreak&#8230; And the swelling didn&#8217;t ease off completely till Friday night. The bite marks are still itching&#8230; Even today&#8230; Grrrr&#8230; I think we need to harness these mosquitoes and integrate it into our army&#8230; They&#8217;re a force to be reckoned with&#8230; We could fight and win any war with those mosquitoes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mosquitoes over at Lim Chu Kang are sure damn fierce&#8230; Had a two day exercise there on Thursday and Friday and didn&#8217;t slept a wink on Thursday night&#8230; The mosquitoes were all over me, literally&#8230; I tried applying SAF&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/2006\/03\/republic-of-singapore-mosquito-force\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1T66h-B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}