{"id":1264,"date":"2016-08-19T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2016-08-19T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:40:38","slug":"spider-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/spider-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>There is a spider that consistently builds a web inside the pathway in one of our sheds. &nbsp;The web extends from the side of the shed and extends across the walkway and hooks up to a gate. &nbsp;The gate gets opened at least twice a day. &nbsp;Upon opening this gate, it breaks the web loose. &nbsp;The spider first began building this web a couple of weeks ago. &nbsp;The first couple of mornings, I walked into this unseen web which forced me to do the &#8220;spider dance.&#8221; &nbsp; We&#8217;ve all done it. &nbsp;That violent thrashing, waving, jumping, cussing kind of dance that you do right after you realize that you have walked into a spider web. &nbsp;Images of Frodo from the Lord of the Rings flash through your head. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>The spider has rebuilt its web every time that I get tangled in it. &nbsp;After a couple of days, I learned to shine the flashlight on the web, then the spider. &nbsp;Then I would open the gate and duck under the remains of the web. &nbsp;This routine has now gone on for a couple of weeks. &nbsp;I haven&#8217;t squashed the spider as I hope it is catching flies during the day. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>I see this spider web as a lesson in futility on the spider&#8217;s part. &nbsp;Build, wait, web gets tore done, repeat. &nbsp;But now, I am thinking, is this spider sitting there, watching and thinking, &#8220;Dang, I almost caught the big one! &nbsp;Tomorrow is the day!&#8221; &nbsp;Is this arachnid making design improvements that I am unaware of that will eventually lead to my demise? &nbsp;I don&#8217;t want to end up like the ending of &#8220;The Old Man and the Sea&#8221; with me being caught and dead as well as the spider not surviving to enjoy his victory. &nbsp;The spider may get removed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Have a good day and watch out for spider webs. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a spider that consistently builds a web inside the pathway in one of our sheds. &nbsp;The web extends from the side of the shed and extends across the walkway and hooks up to a gate. &nbsp;The gate gets opened at least twice a day. &nbsp;Upon opening this gate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}