{"id":2116,"date":"2025-05-06T00:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-fighting-beetles-sport-in-thailand\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T00:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:38:55","slug":"the-fighting-beetles-sport-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-fighting-beetles-sport-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fighting Beetles Sport in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Northern Thailand Rhinoceros Beetles Battle
\nthat can lift between 100 and 850 times their weight,
\nand inflict deadly damage with their pincher horns. <\/p>\n

And like seasoned, world class MMA fighters,
\ntheir finely honed skill sets include:<\/p>\n

Karate kicks and chops, spinning back kicks,
\nboxing feints and strikes, judo and jujitsu throws,
\nchokes and locks, and good ground games.<\/p>\n

Spectators shout and cheer ecstatically and bet
\nThai currency called baht all night on the fights.
\nWho would ever have thought bugs could
\nbecome synonymous with combat sports.<\/p>\n

Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Northern Thailand Rhinoceros Beetles Battle that can lift between 100 and 850 times their weight, and inflict deadly damage with their pincher horns. And like seasoned, world class MMA fighters, their finely honed skill sets include: Karate kicks and chops, spinning back kicks, boxing feints and strikes, judo and jujitsu throws, chokes and locks,… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}