{"id":3548,"date":"2016-12-30T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2016-12-30T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T18:46:06","slug":"december-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"December 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 December 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This spider was in my bath this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"743\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"IMG_2429.JPG\" height=\"318.4993333333333\" width=\"514.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2429.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"><em>Eratigena atrica  <\/em>(Aea.: Agelenidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Re the spelling of&nbsp; &#8220;gypsy&#8221; (see December 29 posting).&nbsp; Apparently &#8220;gypsy&#8221; is usual in the U.S.&nbsp;&nbsp; The spelling &#8220;gipsy&#8221; is in the older British moth books&nbsp; (South, Kirby), but modern ones use &#8220;gypsy&#8221;.&nbsp; The &#8220;gipsy&#8221; spelling was used in the pre-war de Havilland   biplane aircraft, and for the sailing boat that Sir Francis Chichester sailed around the world in.&nbsp; Etymologically the word comes from the same root as &#8220;Egypt&#8221; so the y-spelling is to be preferred.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 December 30 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This spider was in my bath this morning. &nbsp; Eratigena atrica (Aea.: Agelenidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Re the spelling of&nbsp; &#8220;gypsy&#8221; (see December 29 posting).&nbsp; Apparently &#8220;gypsy&#8221; is usual in the U.S.&nbsp;&nbsp; The spelling &#8220;gipsy&#8221; is in the older British moth books&nbsp; (South, Kirby), but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}