{"id":23329,"date":"2016-10-18T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23329"},"modified":"2016-10-18T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T23:06:36","slug":"creepy-crawly-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/creepy-crawly-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Crawly Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tanfest.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/coarsegold-tarantula-festival.html\">Coarsegold Tarantula Festival<\/a>\u00a0happens each year around Halloween!<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago my worst Halloween spider experience happened just days before October 31 when I woke up from a night&#8217;s sleep and felt my eye hurting. Over the course of the next few days the\u00a0eyelid began to swell, then droop over my eye with\u00a0white stuff oozing out. I went to a doctor hoping to get to the bottom of the problem which was affecting my ability to see. An intern looked at me, asked a few questions and said, &#8220;Spider bite. You need antibiotics.&#8221; Below isn&#8217;t a picture of me, but it shows how my eye looked.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/spidebit.jpg\" alt=\"imgs\" width=\"193\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t wear a mask for Halloween but my eye started\u00a0a few\u00a0conversations with people\u00a0wanting to know what I was\u00a0supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0week\u00a0a big spider dropped from the ceiling onto my lap, possibly\u00a0attracted by the computer screen. I jumped up and tried to find the fast-moving monster but he simply vanished. Oh yeah, it&#8217;s nearly Halloween. He&#8217;ll be back to get me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coarsegold Tarantula Festival\u00a0happens each year around Halloween! Several years ago my worst Halloween spider experience happened just days before October 31 when I woke up from a night&#8217;s sleep and felt my eye hurting. Over the course of the next few days the\u00a0eyelid began to swell, then droop over my eye with\u00a0white stuff oozing out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}