{"id":3352,"date":"2013-08-29T11:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2013-08-29T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:59:24","slug":"nature-a-place-of-beauty-grace-and-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"Nature: a place of beauty, grace and cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 29, 2013-by John Blair,\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>valleywatch.net editor<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Orb Weaver Spider and Grasshopper   Broadband\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56NeanZiVdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nature can be cruel. In my garden this year, I have numerous spiders called &#8220;orb weavers&#8221; or garden spiders. I was watching them today to capture a possible new angle when suddenly a rather large grasshopper jumped into a relatively small orb weaver&#8217;s web. In just a matter of seconds, the orb weaver had snared its prey sufficiently to completely disable it. Now, the grasshopper&#8217;s fate is &#8220;sealed&#8221; in a web of natural desire and hunger.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 29, 2013-by John Blair,\u00a0valleywatch.net editor Nature can be cruel. In my garden this year, I have numerous spiders called &#8220;orb weavers&#8221; or garden spiders. I was watching them today to capture a possible new angle when suddenly a rather &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}