{"id":129,"date":"2011-08-27T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:10:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:10:45","slug":"a-tarantula-burrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"A Tarantula Burrow!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was so excited to find a tarantula burrow on the east side of my yard.\u00a0 2 days after finding her, I saw that she had molted and discarded her old exoskeleton out of her hole. At first I thought it was the remnants of an unfortunate cricket, but then I saw the leg casings and the body and realized this is the old skin. With the skin she also threw out a lot of soil. I guess she\u2019s expanding her living quarters to make room for her growing body.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0418.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"size-large wp-image-130\" title=\"Tarantula\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0418-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0418-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0418-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0418-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry our resident tarantula \u2013 a bit camera shy. But still sitting right at the front of her burrow stalking anything that may wander by.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And a toad sitting near a container of water plants &#8211; hoping for some rain, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-131\" title=\"DSCN0420\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0420-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0420-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0420-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0420-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so excited to find a tarantula burrow on the east side of my yard.\u00a0 2 days after finding her, I saw that she had molted and discarded her old exoskeleton out of her hole. At first I thought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}