{"id":1570,"date":"2010-08-22T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2011-01-25T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:55:42","slug":"my-daddy-what-long-legs-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/08\/my-daddy-what-long-legs-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"My, Daddy, What Long Legs You Have!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons that are beyond me, it&#8217;s apparently daddy long legs season here in the sticks.  Suddenly they&#8217;re everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t really like them, I don&#8217;t hate them.  I just don&#8217;t want to have to deal with them every time I turn around.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"little daddy long legs\" title=\"daddy-long-legs-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-1-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-1-1-150x124.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is what I&#8217;m used to seeing.  A tiny body and long legs, but overall still fairly small.   (Yep, this one&#8217;s missing a front leg.)<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit freaked out when I saw this one!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-2.jpg\" alt=\"big daddy long legs\" title=\"daddy-long-legs-2\" width=\"324\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-2.jpg 324w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-2-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/d-l-l-2-138x150.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall MUCH larger.  And that body!  That body isn&#8217;t like what I think of as a daddy long legs.  I think of their bodies as little dots &#8211; really nothing more than something to hold the legs together.<\/p>\n<p>I did not like him Sam-I-Am!<\/p>\n<p>Now get a load of THIS one!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/spider-lamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/spider-lamp.jpg\" alt=\"spider lamp\" title=\"spider-lamp\" width=\"350\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/spider-lamp.jpg 350w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/spider-lamp-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/spider-lamp-145x150.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously not a spider at all, but I am struck by how insect-like this shadow is when the sun strikes my lamp in the afternoons.  I couldn&#8217;t help but share it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your turn: anything creeping you out lately?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons that are beyond me, it&#8217;s apparently daddy long legs season here in the sticks. Suddenly they&#8217;re everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t really like them, I don&#8217;t hate them. I just don&#8217;t want to have to deal with them every time I turn around. This is what I&#8217;m used to seeing. A tiny body and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-nature","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}