{"id":512,"date":"2002-09-03T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/09\/abject-terror\/"},"modified":"2002-09-03T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2002-09-03T13:48:02","slug":"abject-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/09\/abject-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Abject Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/images\/spider.jpg\" align=\"right\">Why is it that every year around labor day weekend we find something nightmarish on our property?!?  Last year, it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/archives\/2001_09_01_sreilly_archive.html#5478523\">hornets&#8217; nest<\/a>.  This year?  A gigantic spider that they must have misplaced while filming Arachnophobia 2&#8230;  It&#8217;s living in the bushes near the pool, and I almost walked into it while trying to water the peppers on the other side of the fence.  There is nothing in this world that I fear more than spiders, except maybe gigantic spiders.  Anyway, a brief visit to google helped me figure out that it&#8217;s probably an <a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/accounts\/argiope\/a._aurantia$narrative.html\"><i>argiope aurantia<\/i><\/a>, which is not poisonous.  Like I care.  It had better be gone before I get home, or I&#8217;m going to find someone braver than me to evict it.  In the meantime, I&#8217;m going to sit here in my safe, non-spider-infested office and try to forget about creepy-crawly things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that every year around labor day weekend we find something nightmarish on our property?!? Last year, it was the hornets&#8217; nest. This year? A gigantic spider that they must have misplaced while filming Arachnophobia 2&#8230; It&#8217;s living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}