{"id":1818,"date":"2012-09-23T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2012-09-23T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T12:03:14","slug":"kill-it-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So last night my wife comes in from “last call” with the dog and says that there’s a huge spider outside.<\/p>\n

She was right. Effer was HUGE.<\/p>\n

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Click to embiggen. If you dare.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That’s a 12″ square paver, for scale.<\/p>\n

I got brave and went close enough to take this one:<\/p>\n

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Click to embiggen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That abdomen is about the size of an acorn. When I got in close, I saw several tiny spiders crawling under the big one (baby spiders hitching a ride on momma?). I blew on it, trying to see if it was dead. <\/p>\n

It jumped, and so did I. I stepped on it and then came inside to change pants. Not sure my Glock would have been effective on that beast.<\/p>\n

So, what kind of spider was that? Should I be concerned about all the little ones? My son in just about to start crawling….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So last night my wife comes in from “last call” with the dog and says that there’s a huge spider outside. She was right. Effer was HUGE. That’s a 12″ square paver, for scale. I got brave and went close enough to take this one: That abdomen is about the size of an acorn. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogblogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}