{"id":298436,"date":"2017-04-07T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6c3d78747fc400d359dfb00546a676a5"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:00:01","slug":"the-truth-about-spider-bites-in-australia-theyre-unlikely-to-eat-your-flesh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=298436","title":{"rendered":"The truth about spider bites in Australia  &ndash;  they&#8217;re unlikely to eat your flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent news reports that a man had both his legs amputated after being bitten by a white-tailed spider have again cast this relatively harmless spider in a negative light. Experts have since said amputations may have been wrongly blamed on a spider bite, and authorities now consider a bacterial infection to be responsible for the man&#8217;s injuries. Despite this, the damage to the largely harmless white-tail may have been done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent news reports that a man had both his legs amputated after being bitten by a white-tailed spider have again cast this relatively harmless spider in a negative light. Experts have since said amputations may have been wrongly blamed on a spider bit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298437,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298436\/revisions\/298437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}