Something you may not know about me: I don’t kill bugs. Pretty much ever. I do make exceptions for flies and mosquitoes and anything that — God forbid — is or might be in my foodstuffs, but otherwise the creepy-crawlies are safe with me. Any unwanted guests of the many-legged variety are carefully captured and released outside. Even bees and wasps and spiders. <\/p>\n
Especially spiders. For the first, for reasons I can’t quite explain, I hold them in pretty high regard. Maybe it’s down to Charlotte. (Terrific!<\/a>) Second, when I was very, very young I read in Huck Finn<\/i> that killing spiders is bad luck, and that stuck with me. The only time I ever kill a spider is if it’s already mortally wounded when I happen upon it. To save an able-bodied spider, I’ll actually go to fairly great lengths.<\/p>\n Among my family all of this is fairly well known, as is the fact that if they feel compelled to kill some little creature they discover, they’d better do it without my hearing about it. It was pretty gratifying, then, when Petra came in the office the other day complaining about a bug on her toy stove, asking Olof, “Can you come take it away and put it outside?” instead of insisting that he kill it. And it was even better when he did<\/i> take it outside. It’s the small victories, I tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Something you may not know about me: I don’t kill bugs. Pretty much ever. I do make exceptions for flies and mosquitoes and anything that — God forbid — is or might be in my foodstuffs, but otherwise the creepy-crawlies are safe with me. Any unwanted guests of the many-legged variety are carefully captured and… Read More Rescue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}