{"id":1011,"date":"2014-08-17T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2014\/08\/17\/140817-spiderphotos\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:33:58","slug":"140817-spiderphotos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2014\/08\/17\/140817-spiderphotos\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophotos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never made a secret of my dislike for spiders. There are people for whom I have great respect who think spiders make great pets, but I&#8217;d just as soon invite a family of cobras to live in our bedroom as tolerate a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0271367\/\">single eight legged freak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We recently transplanted a couple of tall junipers into slightly larger and more stable pots, and each of them was home to at least one of these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/spiders\/blackwidow1.jpg\" alt=\"Black widow spider\"><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you don&#8217;t recognize it; perhaps this angle will help:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/spiders\/blackwidow2.jpg\" alt=\"Black widow spider\"><\/p>\n<p>Even the photos give me the willies. And because we&#8217;ve had some favorable weather conditions this summer, there are a bunch of these lovely creatures around the house (thankfully all on the outside). [In the interest of full disclosure and without a shred of remorse, I will report that this particular black widow was in the throes of death, thanks to my good pal Raid.]<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say that I can&#8217;t appreciate the skill of certain of the species in creating things of beauty, even if they&#8217;ll never themselves be objects of my desire. This morning, while enjoying a cup of coffee and the newspaper on the front porch this morning before church, I noticed the following installation, which had been constructed overnight. The light was just right for a few photos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/spiders\/web1.jpg\" alt=\"Spider web\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/spiders\/web2.jpg\" alt=\"Spider web\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/spiders\/web3.jpg\" alt=\"Spider web\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the interest of full disclosure&#8230;the little guy in the first two photos is still busy at work, doing whatever his spidery little heart desires. I&#8217;m not a total monster&#8230;as long as he stays on his side of the car seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never made a secret of my dislike for spiders. There are people for whom I have great respect who think spiders make great pets, but I&#8217;d just as soon invite a family of cobras to live in our bedroom as tolerate a single eight legged freak. We recently transplanted a couple of tall junipers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2014\/08\/17\/140817-spiderphotos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arachnophotos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-wildlife-inverts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9211,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/9211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}