{"id":1179,"date":"2015-01-13T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1179-lurking-in-the-garden.html"},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:39:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:09:55","slug":"lurking-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1179-lurking-in-the-garden.html","title":{"rendered":"Lurking in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1690 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1010-_MG_6767.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLurking in the garden is a beautiful creature who spins her web every night to rid us of those pesky mosquitoes.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Garden Orb Weaver is actually a collected name for several species of spiders with similar body shape and behavior. Yes she is beautiful but only from a distance as anyone who inadvertently walks into one of her webs will attest to just how quickly that distance can be achieved.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt might be wishful thinking to hope she keeps the mosquito population down but I sure do like seeing her in our garden.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Lurking in the Garden, 1\/100s f\/16 ISO1250 100mm 2x Off Camera Strobes<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Lurking in the garden is a beautiful creature who spins her web every night to rid us of those pesky mosquitoes. The Garden Orb Weaver is actually a collected name for several species of spiders with similar body shape and behavior. Yes she is beautiful but only from a distance as &#8230; <a title=\"Lurking in the Garden\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1179-lurking-in-the-garden.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lurking in the Garden\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}