{"id":17929,"date":"2015-10-25T23:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2015-10-25T23:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T03:01:54","slug":"real-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/10\/real-quick\/","title":{"rendered":"Real quick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HalloweenMarbled.jpg\" alt=\"marbled orb weaver Araneus marmoreus on black leaf\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17930\" \/>First off, you do know Halloween is coming, right? This little lady seems to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I know, after claiming I could completely blow off the blog in the last post, I pretty much completely blew off the blog, a demonstration of dependability from me that is entirely unprecedented &#8211; it just took the right motivation. More is coming shortly, since I have some recent pics to feature, but first is a trivial post, and Monday color again.<\/p>\n<p>Fall colors are not quite up to snuff yet, but a photo outing this morning netted this marbled orb weaver (<em>Araneus marmoreus<\/em>) being shy on a dead leaf while still providing a nice portrait angle. Right away, I was thinking how similar it is to a <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2013\/10\/just-because-part-12\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo shot two years ago<\/a>, one that I recall easily since it happens to be a favorite of mine (soon to be added to the main site gallery.) And to be honest, I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s the same plant species, just one I haven&#8217;t pinned down yet.<\/p>\n<p>These spiders, with an abdomen about the size of a grape, could be found <em>everywhere<\/em> down at the river, one of the few species that wanted to show itself today (and you&#8217;re going to see at least one more of them later.) I have barely seen them anywhere else at all, so I&#8217;m guessing a few hatchings in the right conditions caused the species to become prevalent in that particular region. But then again, that&#8217;s just uneducated me talking.<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, you do know Halloween is coming, right? This little lady seems to&#8230; I know, after claiming I could completely blow off the blog in the last post, I pretty much completely blew off the blog, a demonstration of dependability from me that is entirely unprecedented &#8211; it just took the right motivation. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,4,3],"tags":[3206,3205],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-araneus-marmoreus","tag-marbled-orb-weaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","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=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}