{"id":68521,"date":"2020-06-27T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68521"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:08:22","slug":"white-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/white-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"White Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not afraid of spiders –<\/p>\n

Maybe because they are so manipulative<\/p>\n

and beguiling –<\/p>\n

Maybe because of their silken webs –<\/p>\n

Or because they are vulnerable if you stick<\/p>\n

your finger through their webs\"\" and they<\/p>\n

swing away on a string and fold themselves into a ball.<\/p>\n

But there was once a very large white spider<\/p>\n

that intrigued me so much, and I got so close to it<\/p>\n

and touched its body,<\/p>\n

and I felt something pinch my pinky.<\/p>\n

“Welcome to my web,<\/p>\n

said the spider to the fly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not afraid of spiders – Maybe because they are so manipulative and beguiling – Maybe because of their silken webs – Or because they are vulnerable if you stick your finger through their webs and they swing away on a string and fold themselves…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68645,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68521\/revisions\/68645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}