{"id":560,"date":"2006-07-15T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T01:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=560"},"modified":"2020-01-01T22:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T03:45:23","slug":"another-alternative-to-deet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/another-alternative-to-deet\/","title":{"rendered":"Another alternative to DEET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2006\/07\/060703091932.htm\">Compounds in the leaves of the American beauty berry plant<\/a> (<em>Callicarpa americana<\/em>) apparently help ward off biting insects.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping they find a way to turn this into a product. Anything has to be better than citronella spray. Yech.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of natural remedies, if you apply the juice from jewel weed (<em>Impatiens capensisto<\/em>) a fresh mosquito bite, it won&#8217;t swell up or itch.<\/p>\n<p>I mention jewel weed in my novel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dean&#8217;s driveway was so narrow that tree branches whipped the side of Maisey&#8217;s car as we drove in. I noticed the piles of brush I&#8217;d helped him move off of it after the ice storm were half-hidden now by brambles and, in the wetter places, tall pale clumps of jewel weed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compounds in the leaves of the American beauty berry plant (Callicarpa americana) apparently help ward off biting insects. Here&#8217;s hoping they find a way to turn this into a product. Anything has to be better than citronella spray. Yech. Speaking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/another-alternative-to-deet\/\">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":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1261,1262,1264,1263,1259,1260],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","tag-beauty-berry","tag-callicarpa-americana","tag-impatiens-capensisto","tag-jewel-weed","tag-natural-insect-repellent","tag-natural-mosquito-bite-treatment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}