{"id":33864,"date":"2022-09-10T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-eyes-of-the-beholder\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:05:48","slug":"and-finally-eyes-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-eyes-of-the-beholder\/","title":{"rendered":"And Finally: Eyes of the Beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty thousand spiders, led by members of the British Tarantula Society, gathered in Coventry on May 18 for the annual BTS exhibition, with a Socotra Island blue baboon spider taking Best in Show for first-time entrant Mike Dawkins. According to news reports, judges ignore spiders&#8217; personalities and make their selections by objectifying the body&#8212;seeking &#8220;shiny coats, correct proportions, an active demeanor and proper stance&#8221; (which means that &#8220;all eight legs should be upright and perfectly poised&#8221;). Veteran judge Ryan Hale said winning does not necessarily make a spider more valuable, but is likely to enhance the keeper&#8217;s reputation in the tarantula-training community. (<em>Mother Nature News<\/em>, 5-23-2014)  <\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/and-finally-eyes-of-the-beholder\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty thousand spiders, led by members of the British Tarantula Society, gathered in Coventry on May 18 for the annual BTS exhibition, with a Socotra Island blue baboon spider taking Best in Show for first-time entrant Mike Dawkins. According to news reports, judges ignore spiders&#8217; personalities and make their selections by objectifying the body&#8212;seeking &#8220;shiny &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-eyes-of-the-beholder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And Finally: Eyes of the Beholder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}