{"id":14856,"date":"2018-08-17T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14856"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:57:36","slug":"cobweb-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14856","title":{"rendered":"Cobweb Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14858\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180817_157667.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14858\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180817_157667-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Cobweb Spider\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14858\" data-wp-pid=\"14858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180817_157667-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180817_157667-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180817_157667-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180817_157667-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180817_157667-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180817_157667.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cobweb Spider<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s spider time in Maryland. There are spiders around all year long, of course. It&#8217;s said that you are never more than six feet from a spider<sup>*<\/sup>. Nevertheless, they are much more noticeable in the heat of late summer. We have quite a few living in the garden and yard and I have no problem with that. They eat things I like less than spiders. This one is just outside our living room window on a fairly impressive web. Getting into a good position to photograph it was a bit tricky, as I didn&#8217;t want to disturb it or ruin its web. I know I have a few followers who aren&#8217;t crazy about my spider photos (or other creepy-crawly things) but I think they are beautiful, in their own way. This is, I believe, a cobweb spider in the genus <em>Parasteatoda<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup> There are probably exceptions to this, for instance if you are floating in the ocean (without a boat), you <em>may<\/em> be more than six feet from a spider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s spider time in Maryland. There are spiders around all year long, of course. It&#8217;s said that you are never more than six feet from a spider*. Nevertheless, they are much more noticeable in the heat of late summer. We have quite a few living in the garden and yard and I have no problem &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14856\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[118,875,876,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14860,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856\/revisions\/14860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}