{"id":5087,"date":"2015-07-16T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2015-07-16T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:00:06","slug":"the-golden-orb-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5087","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Orb Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 of a Golden Orb Weaver, <em>Nephila edulis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After 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.<\/p>\n<p>This 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Golden Orb Weaver&#8217; 1\/250s f\/4.5 ISO100 200mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 of a Golden Orb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,259,745,788,465,789,115,78,64,790,62],"class_list":["post-5087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arachnid","tag-critters","tag-flindersranges","tag-goldenorbweaver","tag-nature","tag-orb","tag-southaustralia","tag-spiders","tag-spiderweb","tag-weaver","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5089,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions\/5089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}