{"id":124,"date":"2009-11-16T19:31:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/124-the-monster-in-our-kitchen.html"},"modified":"2009-11-16T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T11:47:11","slug":"the-monster-in-our-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/124-the-monster-in-our-kitchen.html","title":{"rendered":"The Monster In Our Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:230 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"808\" height=\"542\" style=\"border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_8470_tiny_spider.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nToday I noticed a tiny tiny spider in a messy little web high up on the window frame and wondered what it would be like to be a fly! The amazing thing about really little things is how amazing they look from their own perspective instead of ours.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI hardly even noticed this little gal up there and when I did it was really a case of &#8216;so what&#8217;. But, once I shrunk down to her size it was a different story altogether! Thoughts of Frodo Baggins being be captured and dragged off by the great Shelob came to mind and in an instant I decided she had to go. Just as soon as I took a photo and returned to human size again of course! You just can&#8217;t let monsters live in your kitchen. You never know what mischief they will cause. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nNothing in the image gives any indication of her true size. In fact the frame is less than 5mm across!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUntil the next post, take care out there and stay away from monsters! &#8230;Robert \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath: Shelalob (Shelob&#8217;s Australian cousin) ready to pounce!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I noticed a tiny tiny spider in a messy little web high up on the window frame and wondered what it would be like to be a fly! The amazing thing about really little things is how amazing they look from their own perspective instead of ours. I hardly even noticed this little gal &#8230; <a title=\"The Monster In Our Kitchen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/124-the-monster-in-our-kitchen.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Monster In Our Kitchen\">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-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","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=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}