{"id":1316,"date":"2015-07-16T22:04:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1316-the-golden-orb-weaver.html"},"modified":"2015-07-16T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:34:26","slug":"the-golden-orb-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1316-the-golden-orb-weaver.html","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Orb Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1854 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1148-_MG_8097.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen I was thirteen years old I remember being on a walk in the Flinders Ranges and walking into a great big net spread between two trees. I also remember that it did not break and I had to extricated myself from it by walking out backwards. It was the web of a Golden Orb Weaver, <em>Nephila edulis<\/em>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfter the incident we looked all around but the web&#8217;s owner was no where to be seen and I spent the rest of the day dreading she had stowed away in my pack and would seek retribution later. Fortunately that did not pass.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis time I saw her first high up in her web. With legs as long as my fingers and a body as big as my thumb she was awesome in her own arachnid way. This time I was happy to only interact with my camera and then leave her in peace.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Golden Orb Weaver&#8217; 1\/250s f\/4.5 ISO100 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; When I was thirteen years old I remember being on a walk in the Flinders Ranges and walking into a great big net spread between two trees. I also remember that it did not break and I had to extricated myself from it by walking out backwards. It was the web &#8230; <a title=\"The Golden Orb Weaver\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1316-the-golden-orb-weaver.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Golden Orb Weaver\">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-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","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=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}