{"id":695,"date":"2008-09-25T17:51:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T01:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-10-13T05:45:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T13:45:52","slug":"shelob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Shelob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that childhood dread that, lurking behind things and in cracks, are <em>big, black spiders<\/em>?  Some people <q>outgrow<\/q> that fear; such <q>outgrowth<\/q> is <em>dementia<\/em>.  Those <em>big, black spiders<\/em> are really <em>there<\/em>.<\/p> <p>In the course of a renovation, a local business placed a planter in front of their site; to-day, they pulled it away <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/spider0.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of store-front with planter pulled away]\" \/> exposing one of those <em>big, black spiders<\/em> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/spider1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"284\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of big, black spider]\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/spider3.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ; margin-top: 1em ;\" alt=\"[enlarged detail of image of big, black spider]\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know that childhood dread that, lurking behind things and in cracks, are big, black spiders? Some people outgrow that fear; such outgrowth is dementia. Those big, black spiders are really there. In the course of a renovation, a local business placed a planter in front of their site; to-day, they pulled it away exposing [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[718,456,394,393],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-public","tag-arachnids","tag-arthropods","tag-everyday-horrors","tag-spiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}