{"id":74,"date":"2007-10-12T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2007\/10\/12\/birds-and-spiders\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T22:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:39:26","slug":"birds-and-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/birds-and-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds and Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love watching birds. This weekend we&#8217;re hoping the snow geese have gathered at their traditional place in Vermont- the <a href=\"http:\/\/vt.audubon.org\/vermont-important-bird-areas\">Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area<\/a> (new link: May 2015) &#8211; because it&#8217;s the only weekend I have free.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s spiders that have crept regularly into my choral music. First <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/product\/weaving-the-world-chorus\/\">Weaving the World<\/a><\/strong>, with text by Janisse Ray&#8230; &#8220;Each night spiders weave the world back together&#8221; In my latest piece <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/product\/future-of-life-chorus\/\">The Future of Life<\/a><\/strong>, spiders ride the wind to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to suppress the feeling of repulsion when I see a big spider. I guess it&#8217;s because I just don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re a biting kind, and it&#8217;s gross to get webs all over my face when I walk in the woods. But if I stand back and just look at them, they and their dew-covered webs are dramatically beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching snow geese in Vermont is my idea of a good time, so why does my choral music gravitate to spiders?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,130],"tags":[10,32,111,117,114],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composing","category-nature","tag-birds","tag-chorus","tag-snow-geese","tag-spiders","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}