{"id":128,"date":"2014-07-09T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/?p=128"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:07:05","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-floating-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of the Floating Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our little workers pulled a fast one on me the other day.\u00a0 Imagine my surprise when, as I <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo01-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"stone_photo01\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo01-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo01.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>went out in the early morning to check for new webs, I found a stone floating in mid-air!\u00a0 Now there&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day. <a href=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-130\" src=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo02-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"stone_photo02\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo02-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo02.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-131\" src=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo03-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"stone_photo03\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo03-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stone_photo03.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was just trying to puzzle it out when I noticed another floating a few inches above it. Well, NOW I was really interested. (insert spooky music here) It turns out that one of our little workers is a budding David Copperfield.<\/p>\n<p>Spiders look for anchor points for the webs.\u00a0 Sometimes they choose a place well off from where they want to build the web.\u00a0 This spider had attached to the top stone but it had been too light.\u00a0 Instead of giving up on that stone he apparently attached to a neighboring stone.\u00a0 But, in building the Web his work had levitated both stones.<\/p>\n<p>With my working around them I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll last too long.\u00a0 But, on your next visit be sure to ask to see the place where the mysterious floating stones were discovered. Oh, and try to act surprised when I tell you how it was done.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our little workers pulled a fast one on me the other day.\u00a0 Imagine my surprise when, as I went out in the early morning to check for new webs, I found a stone floating in mid-air!\u00a0 Now there&#8217;s something you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/?p=128\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spiderwebfarm.com\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}