{"id":5416,"date":"2008-11-10T11:04:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:04:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T18:24:05","slug":"open-thread-wet-spider-web-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5416","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Wet Spider Web Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use the comments to post whatever you&#8217;d like, for as long as you like, with whomever you&#8217;d like. Self-linking is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>How did I not know about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/\">Dark Roasted Blend?<\/a> What a neat blog of neat things! (And thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/ourdescent.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/07\/photos-of-spiders\/\">Our Decent Into Madness<\/a> for leading me to it.)<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite DRB posts I&#8217;ve seen so far: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2008\/08\/spider-webs-glamour-architecture.html\">A gallery of awe-inspiring photos of spider webs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/spiderweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spiderweb\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/spiderweb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/spiderweb-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>And somewhat politically, if you haven&#8217;t already read the much-linked Onion article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/nation_finally_shitty_enough_to\">Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress<\/a>,&#8221; then you&#8217;re not a real American. (Mandolin told me it was &#8220;so true it hurt.&#8221;) Sometimes, reading The Onion, I feel I&#8217;ve gotten the point and skip the last half of the article &#8212; but in this case, you should read to the the final sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use the comments to post whatever you&#8217;d like, for as long as you like, with whomever you&#8217;d like. Self-linking is beautiful. How did I not know about Dark Roasted Blend? What a neat blog of neat things! (And thanks to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5416\">Continue reading <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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}