{"id":899,"date":"2012-02-23T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=899"},"modified":"2014-12-17T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:20:21","slug":"spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Too many legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/conkerwithsignRed1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-900\" title=\"conkerwithsignRed\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/conkerwithsignRed1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/conkerwithsignRed1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/conkerwithsignRed1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It really works. Conkers deter spiders. Scientists don&#8217;t know why. Perhaps they overlooked the obvious:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/conkersignRed1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-905\" title=\"conkersignRed\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/conkersignRed1.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/conkersignRed1.gif 500w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/conkersignRed1-300x81.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why would I want to discourage spiders, when they do good works like kill flies (sorry flies) and minor DIY (they&#8217;re very fast painters) along the baseboards? Don&#8217;t ask me, ask my amygdala, which is that part of the brain which controls <a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=3402\" target=\"_blank\">fear<\/a> responses. It doesn&#8217;t help that they can grow very big around here. You don&#8217;t want to know just how big. Even if you like spiders, it would mentally scar you.<\/p>\n<p>Conkers are known as buckeyes in the States. There is even a buckeye state: Ohio. I&#8217;m from Ohio. Therefore I&#8217;m known as a buckeye, at least among the <em><em>cognoscenti<\/em><\/em>. You&#8217;d think that would give my corporeal self special spider-repelling powers, but it doesn&#8217;t work that way.<\/p>\n<p>There must be millions of spiders in the fields which surround our house, held at bay since we fortified the perimeter last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really works. Conkers deter spiders. Scientists don&#8217;t know why. Perhaps they overlooked the obvious: Why would I want to discourage spiders, when they do good works like kill flies (sorry flies) and minor DIY (they&#8217;re very fast painters) along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=899\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}