{"id":176,"date":"2008-06-03T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-06-03T00:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T07:01:26","slug":"the-most-terrifying-blog-entry-ive-ever-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/06\/the-most-terrifying-blog-entry-ive-ever-written\/","title":{"rendered":"The most terrifying blog entry I&#8217;ve ever written"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like nature. For most of my childhood, I lived in houses surrounded by woods, and I liked to explore them. I even went to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineaudubon.org\/explore\/camp\/hi_overview.shtml\">Audubon camp in Maine<\/a> for two summers to hike and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&amp;q=puffin\">puffins<\/a>. But spiders terrify me. Tonight, I was just sitting on my couch minding my own business, when I noticed a small spider crawling on my shirt. Fortunately, it crawled away from my face, and then onto my laptop. I was about to blow it off when it scurried under my laptop&#8217;s keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the keyboard very carefully, I did what any reasonable\u00a0arachnophobic blogger would do. I opened up a new blog entry and prepared to quickly announce my departure from the Internet, at least until I could get to another computer. But before I could even tap out a one-liner, the spider came back out, narrowly missing my fingertip and causing me to leap from my seat. As I was in mid-air, with gravity doing what gravity does best, I had to quickly act to balance three very strong emotions, all vying for priority:\u00a0<strong>Fear<\/strong> of spiders,\u00a0<strong>love<\/strong> of my MacBook Pro, and <strong>respect<\/strong> for my coffee table and body, which were about to collide.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember what happened during the time between the realization of this situation and the moment I returned to the ground, but I ended up on my feet, laptop safely in my hands, and spider harmlessly on the floor. Oh, and my heart was beating about a zillion BPM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like nature. For most of my childhood, I lived in houses surrounded by woods, and I liked to explore them. I even went to an Audubon camp in Maine for two summers to hike and check out puffins. But spiders terrify me. Tonight, I was just sitting on my couch minding my own business, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/06\/the-most-terrifying-blog-entry-ive-ever-written\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The most terrifying blog entry I&#8217;ve ever written<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}