{"id":5,"date":"2007-08-20T03:08:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/5"},"modified":"2007-08-20T03:17:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T10:17:13","slug":"die-spider-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/die-spider-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Die, Spider, Die!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I consider myself a compassionate and peaceful person.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Opposed to wars (including the one in Iraq), completely unappreciative of &#8220;pretend&#8221; graphic violence in movies or WWE. \u00c2\u00a0 Not a big fan of hunting for sport (as opposed to hunting for food &#8211; and even that makes me feel sad for the animal).\u00c2\u00a0 Live and let live I say.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0scoop up those giant slugs that like to devour my plants, and toss them over the fench into the field, hoping (in denial) they won&#8217;t find their way back to me\u00c2\u00a0<em>(I admit I have resorted to some slug pellets at times).\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>I don&#8217;t like to kill bugs or even spiders &#8211; usually preferring the &#8220;catch and release&#8221; method of removing them from my home, or an occasional flush down the toilet (giving them a fighting chance if they can swim and hold their breath : )\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/diespider.jpg\" alt=\"Die, hobo spider, die\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><strong>Not so with hobo spiders<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 They are very poisonous and I kill them, though a bit reluctantly.\u00c2\u00a0 I surprised myself this week, however, when I realized I was actually taking <em>pleasure <\/em>in watching this very large hobo spider die.\u00c2\u00a0 I sprayed him with <em>Grant&#8217;s Ant &amp; Spider Killer<\/em> as he was crawling on my patio screen.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He fell to the ground and ran\/hobbled out to the patio, spinning himself in circles for\u00c2\u00a010 minutes as I stood over him\u00c2\u00a0gleefully saying <em>&#8220;die, spider die&#8230; &#8220;<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I bought some sticky traps and have captured 2 very large, 2 medium, and 2 small hobo spiders in the past week.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This, in addition to the 2 that I flushed and three that I sprayed.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time to get a cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I consider myself a compassionate and peaceful person.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Opposed to wars (including the one in Iraq), completely unappreciative of &#8220;pretend&#8221; graphic violence in movies or WWE. \u00c2\u00a0 Not a big fan of hunting for sport (as opposed to hunting for food &#8211; and even that makes me feel sad for the animal).\u00c2\u00a0 Live and let live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/die-spider-die\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Die, Spider, Die!<\/span> <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":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}