{"id":747,"date":"2009-12-26T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T04:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2009\/12\/26\/misc\/"},"modified":"2009-12-26T22:21:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T04:21:36","slug":"misc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Misc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just dug my camera out of the glove-box of my scooter and there were some photos on it from the fall that I never got around to posting<\/p>\n<p>First of all, <strong>Spiders love my life-jacket<\/strong>.\u00a0 I keep a life vest in my kayak at Lake of the Isles and I&#8217;ve often noticed that it is a bit spiderier than your average piece of landscape, but this summer I left it unused for a month and found it entirely coated in cobwebs and egg-cases.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/spider-eggs.jpg\" alt=\"spider-eggs.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I brushed them and scraped them off and shook my vest a whole lot.\u00a0 <strong>I am slow on the uptake<\/strong>, but opted not to actually wear the vest.\u00a0 I crammed it behind my seat and set off.\u00a0 Here is a once-in-a-lifetime photo of me living dangerously and paddling without\u00a0 a PFD:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/unwitting.jpg\" alt=\"Me, just before the spiders crawl all over the damn place.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a close-up that I&#8217;m especially proud of.\u00a0 It represents\u00a0 one of the many varieties of spiders that I discovered climbing all over me, my paddle, and my boat moments after I took the above photo.\u00a0 I did not take the close-up while on the water but only after a brisk, tense paddle back to shore followed by a few minutes of calming down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/spider-close-up.jpg\" alt=\"spider-close-up.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just dug my camera out of the glove-box of my scooter and there were some photos on it from the fall that I never got around to posting First of all, Spiders love my life-jacket.\u00a0 I keep a life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=747\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}