{"id":1177,"date":"2018-06-08T14:57:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2018-06-08T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:57:39","slug":"may-fly-offended-at-being-called-a-june-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"May-fly offended at being called a June-bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/insect-3073784_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1179\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/insect-3073784_960_720-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 A May-fly arrived in Windsor this week as part of his species annual convention in Essex County and was shocked when a passerby called him a June-bug. \u201cSeriously it is 2018 people. 2018 and still you\u2019ve a got a segment of society just throwing out names and labels without a thought of how it impacts an insect\u2019s feelings\u201d said Arthur the May-fly as he was stuck to a glass window on Ouellette Avenue on Friday morning.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Arthur went on to say \u201cEvery year my friends and I visit Windsor. We love the city and with the Casino strike over there are lots of bright lights to buzz around but all it takes is one person to call you a June-bug and it ruins your night.\u00a0\u00a0 We are May-flies and we\u2019re proud of it.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing against June-bugs if that\u2019s your thing but to call a May-fly a June-bug is insulting.\u00a0 Where does it stop?\u00a0\u00a0 Next thing you know you will be calling us July-fleas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether it was getting the month wrong or the word bug that bothered him more the May-fly replied \u201cLook I get the confusion. We sometimes arrive in June not May.\u00a0 But a June-bug is a beetle and we are flies.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think the beetles like the word bug either.\u00a0 We are all insects.\u00a0 The term bug is insulting to all of us.\u00a0 I would have hoped that by 2018 we\u2019d stop using the b-word altogether\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 A May-fly arrived in Windsor this week as part of his species annual convention in Essex County and was shocked when a passerby called him a June-bug. \u201cSeriously it is 2018 people. 2018 and still you\u2019ve a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}