{"id":759,"date":"2005-09-18T11:28:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T14:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=759"},"modified":"2005-09-18T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T17:51:52","slug":"the-return-of-the-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"The return of the spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span><a href=\".\/wp-content\/spider_web1.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-spider_web1.jpg' alt='Spider web 1' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>esterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=754\">I guided a spider to safety<\/a> in case extreme weather conditions from the storm called Ophelia were going to hit the province. Since a couple of weeks, this particular spider has decided to make a habitat in front of the entrance to our backyard deck, forcing our sacred 15-year old puppy dog to take the regular entrance into the house instead of the easy backdoor way back in.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\".\/wp-content\/spider_web2.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-spider_web2.jpg' class=\"alignleft\" alt='spider_web 2' \/><\/a>After carefully destroying her (his?) web yesterday, I was suprised to see the spider back in full force with a brand new web at the very same location <em>with<\/em> some kind of catch. Looks like a fly from here, and a big one at that. The poor thing must have been spinning its web during the rain (which stopped on or around 4-5 am) in the wee morning hours, probably trying to be ahead of <em>suppertime<\/em>, which in spiderterms equates to &#8216;the break after the rainfall, when all these flies  head out for the green container&#8217;<sup>1<\/sup> (I hear). Smart thinking. Not so smart thinking (from a human perspective), to spin the web at the same spot. But hey, it&#8217;s my pleasure to let us species co-exist for a while: the spider&#8217;s determination serves as an example for us lowly humans.\n<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s your post-Ophelia picture of a genuine storm survivor.\n<\/p>\n<p><small>Our humble digicam supports both zoom and macro mode (up to 15 cms I think): I used a tripod which got me as close as +10-20 cms to the web and managed to get 4-5 pictures with 3x optical zoom (max 23.1 mm). Note that the wind was blowing too, actually towards the lens of the camera. The ones above, were some of the <em>lucky<\/em> shots.<br \/>\n<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> For some kind of reason it tends to attract plenty of flies.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I guided a spider to safety in case extreme weather conditions from the storm called Ophelia were going to hit the province. Since a couple of weeks, this particular spider has decided to make a habitat in front of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=759\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}