{"id":689,"date":"2012-12-20T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=689"},"modified":"2012-12-20T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T04:40:06","slug":"well-this-is-christmassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Well, This Is Christmassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-690\" alt=\"decoySpider\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/decoySpider.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/decoySpider.jpg 320w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/decoySpider-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>It seems that this<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.perunature.com\/2012\/12\/new-species-of-decoy-spider-likely.html\"> newly-discovered species of spider constructs larger decoy versions of itself out of bits of leaf and pieces of things it has eaten<\/a>.\u00a0 Heck, I&#8217;ve got a neighbor down the street, a short fellow, who is always strolling around with a large decoy of himself that he shakes and waves around to intimidate people.\u00a0 It works, too &#8211; most people give him a wide berth.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure he just uses cow and coyote bones, though, not people bones.\u00a0 Pretty sure.\u00a0 If I&#8217;d known how unusual this behavior was, I would have reported it to the scientific journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that this newly-discovered species of spider constructs larger decoy versions of itself out of bits of leaf and pieces of things it has eaten.\u00a0 Heck, I&#8217;ve got a neighbor down the street, a short fellow, who is always strolling around with a large decoy of himself that he shakes and waves around to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonechilling-ideas","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}