{"id":1052,"date":"2010-10-01T17:33:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2010-10-01T17:33:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T21:33:30","slug":"web-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Web of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arachnophobia: An abnormal fear of spiders.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if I would classify myself as having arachnophobia even though spiders do give me the willies. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just say that I have a healthy respect for them and want them at their distance, if they get to close I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run away but I always like to know where they are and thereby keep a watchful eye. Sometimes they can jump, and if they jump, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m jumping to.<\/p>\n

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There is\u00c2\u00a0 a spider living on my front porch who only comes out at night and occasionally I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll watch it as it weaves or continues to weave it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s delicate web. I have to confess that I did at one point try to dissuade it by sabotaging it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web, not destroying it completely but by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unhooking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the bottom treads from the shrubs they were attached to so that if flapped like a flag in the wind from the top of the porch; the next night I went to see if it was there and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be darned it the tenacious spider didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have it fixed and continued to weave it. I watched a few minutes as it worked away seemingly unbothered by my presence, bracing myself for a quick dash to the side in case it was one of those jumping ones.<\/p>\n

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I remember reading Charlotte’s Web when I was young and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember being nervous of spiders then, in fact my brothers and I used to catch spiders albeit in jars and watch fascinated by them. I wonder if my mothers fear of spiders slowly rubbed off on me. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember when I started to be weary of them, all I know is that now they give me the creeps\u00c2\u00a0 – I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve shivered several times in the writing of this post just thinking about them and even jumped a little when I saw a little black blur move across my desk from the corner of my eye, which incidentally was only a fly. Where are the spider webs when you need them?<\/p>\n

I have to say that movies like arachnophobia don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help. Although I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an adult and have seen that movie more than a dozen times it still get\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s me even though I know what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming. Would that mean that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a masochist? A sucker for punishment? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, but as long as they keep their distance, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m cool with them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arachnophobia: An abnormal fear of spiders. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if I would classify myself as having arachnophobia even though spiders do give me the willies. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just say that I have a healthy respect for them and want them at their distance, if they get to close I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run away but I always like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}