{"id":6184,"date":"2015-03-17T18:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T01:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2015-03-17T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T01:33:10","slug":"leprechaun-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2015\/03\/17\/leprechaun-traps\/","title":{"rendered":"Leprechaun Traps!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leprechaun\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In advance of St. Paddy’s day today, the boys explained that they wanted to try and trap some leprechauns. This is not something John or I had done as kids, but apparently building leprechaun traps is a new practice for kids these days.<\/p>\n

Finn explained how the traps were supposed to work, and we did some online research to see examples before we started building our own.\u00a0Critical trap components include Lucky Charms, which Dad-O & Henry ran\u00a0out\u00a0to get, fake rainbows, clouds, and of course, the trap. \u00a0Finn and I stayed home during the bait run to devise cereal bowl and Lego-based traps. You’ll see in the gallery<\/a> what we came up with – paper rainbow entrances with Lucky Charms and fake cotton ball “clouds” to lure\u00a0the leprechauns into leaving gold at the end of each rainbow, before the cereal bowl trap fell onto them.<\/p>\n

We set the traps out on the back steps before bedtime and listened for suspicious rustling on the back porch. John thinks he might’ve heard something but was too sleepy to go out and check. This morning, as soon as the boys awoke, the first words out of Henry’s mouth were:\u00a0“Dad-O, could you shut off the burglar alarm so we can go out & see whether we captured any?”<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, our traps worked! Well, partially… Although the little bootprints left at the scene indicated the leprechauns eventually escaped, they did leave a pile of gold coins (old Mexican pesos), and chocolate coins under each trap. The boys were ecstatic! Henry exclaimed “Now I know that leprechauns are REAL!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In advance of St. Paddy’s day today, the boys explained that they wanted to try and trap some leprechauns. This is not something John or I had done as kids, but apparently building leprechaun traps is a new practice for kids these days. Finn explained how the traps were supposed to work, and we did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6197,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}