{"id":35864,"date":"2023-12-15T02:19:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T07:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35864"},"modified":"2023-12-15T02:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T07:19:31","slug":"living-in-the-past-xxiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/12\/living-in-the-past-xxiii\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the past XXIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/UglySpider3.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of crab spider Tmarus angulatus\" width=\"730\" height=\"962\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17070\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Yeah, another spider, but seriously, this was going to come up because it&#8217;s my favorite spider portrait. So far, anyway. Listen, I know that &#8220;favorite spider portrait&#8221; is a phrase that most people maintain really shouldn&#8217;t exist, but if you&#8217;re gonna do it, you might as well take a little pride in it sometimes, right? And to my warped brain and I, this worked<strong>;<\/strong> the light angle and intensity were right to bring up all those subtle variations in both coloration and shaping, with a catchlight in the eyes to boot, focus was bang-on, and even the position is dynamic and  distances it from the typical &#8216;clinical illustration&#8217; style of most arthropod images. It also helps that this is one of the few species with a pair of prominent eyes, which makes us relate to them better, just about ignoring all those other eyes that some inner sense tells us shouldn&#8217;t be there. But on top of all that, there&#8217;s the knowledge of the negligible size<strong>:<\/strong> the overall length with the legs stretched out in this manner is 15mm, making it just 1mm between the main eyes. Take out a ruler and look at that, and know that the whole spider appeared to be a dark stripe atop her rolled-up egg shelter.<\/p>\n<p>That egg shelter says something else, too, in that not <em>everyone<\/em> found her ugly. Perhaps I&#8217;m identifying too much here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, another spider, but seriously, this was going to come up because it&#8217;s my favorite spider portrait. So far, anyway. Listen, I know that &#8220;favorite spider portrait&#8221; is a phrase that most people maintain really shouldn&#8217;t exist, but if you&#8217;re gonna do it, you might as well take a little pride in it sometimes, right? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1370,7491,7498,1664,3010],"class_list":["post-35864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-crab-spider","tag-says-you","tag-spider-beer-goggles","tag-thomisidae","tag-tmarus-angulatus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35864","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=35864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}