{"id":664,"date":"2010-01-14T07:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=664"},"modified":"2010-01-14T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:28:39","slug":"american-museum-of-natural-history-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"American Museum of Natural History: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-665\" title=\"IMG_3339\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3339-440x330.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3339\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3339-440x330.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3339-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3339.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-666\" title=\"IMG_3341\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3341-440x330.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3341\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3341-440x330.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3341-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3341.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-667\" title=\"IMG_3342\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3342-440x330.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3342\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3342-440x330.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3342-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3342.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Awesome surprise! While wandering through the AMNH we stumbled upon one of the coolest objects of all time: a golden tapestry woven from the silk produced \u00a0by one million spiders!<\/p>\n<p>I first read about it on this Wired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/09\/spider-silk\/\">article<\/a>. Check it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To get as much silk as they needed, Godley and Peers began hiring dozens of spider handlers to collect wild arachnids and carefully harness them to the silk-extraction machine. \u201cWe had to find people who were willing to work with spiders,\u201d Godley said, \u201cbecause they bite.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The color was incredible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome surprise! While wandering through the AMNH we stumbled upon one of the coolest objects of all time: a golden tapestry woven from the silk produced \u00a0by one million spiders! I first read about it on this Wired article. Check it out: To get as much silk as they needed, Godley and Peers began hiring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}