{"id":11671,"date":"2013-05-23T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2013-05-23T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:51:45","slug":"i-suppose-you-find-that-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2013\/05\/i-suppose-you-find-that-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"I suppose you find that funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I met a student in the local botanical garden this morning, and afterward took a couple of passes through the garden to see what there was to chase. I have a post in draft form, coming soon, that&#8217;s going to have a few images of jumping spiders, plus a whole collection of other recent pics &#8211; they&#8217;re primarily what I&#8217;ve been seeing lately. Thus, if anything, I&#8217;d pass on jumping spiders in favor of something else.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SmugJumper.jpg\" alt=\"SmugJumper\" width=\"730\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SmugJumper.jpg 730w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SmugJumper-400x304.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Naturally, I glance down and find my friend here, dancing around idly on the flash unit, meaning I wouldn&#8217;t be able to use the flash for any images, so no smaller aperture for higher depth-of-field. She was cooperative enough to stay put as I disconnected the camera from the flash bracket, and despite the poor natural light, I still got one frame that was pretty sharp, wide open at f4, while holding the bracket in my left hand (meaning a double-handheld shot.) Once I&#8217;d coaxed her onto the rosemary nearby, she vanished completely, so no chances for further compositions.<\/p>\n<p>Did the spider know that she was making things difficult? Was I being mocked? Oh, I have no doubts at all &#8211; note the impish look on her face&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I met a student in the local botanical garden this morning, and afterward took a couple of passes through the garden to see what there was to chase. I have a post in draft form, coming soon, that&#8217;s going to have a few images of jumping spiders, plus a whole collection of other recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[1781],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo","tag-giggling-spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}