{"id":3406,"date":"2016-06-28T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2016-06-28T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:40:38","slug":"watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3406","title":{"rendered":"Being Watched?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get the sense you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being watched?<\/p>\n<p>After getting this sense while reading on the beach, I turned to see this guy staring at me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3408\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3408\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0395-1-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0395\" width=\"640\" height=\"446\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0395-1-1024x713.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0395-1-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0395-1-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>He would stare for anywhere from ten to thirty seconds and then, in the space of a blink, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d disappear in his hole. Within a few minutes, however, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get the sense again, and turn to find him staring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3410\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0379-1-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0379\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0379-1-1024x600.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0379-1-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0379-1-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3411\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0393-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0393\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0393-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0393-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0393-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>As a reading specialist, I can assure you that finding yourself the object of a crab vigil while you are reading certainly affects your comprehension of the text. <\/p>\n<p>Oh well. I may not be able to read much with my little sentinel around, but as long as he stays out of my house (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1412\" target=\"_blank\">unlike his smaller friends<\/a>), at least I can still sleep tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get the sense you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being watched? After getting this sense while reading on the beach, I turned to see this guy staring at me. He would stare for anywhere from ten to thirty seconds and then, in the space of a blink, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d disappear in his hole. Within a few minutes, however, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2073,80,2071,2072,2070,105,100],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-beach-animals","tag-beach-life","tag-crab-watching","tag-crabs-watching-me","tag-island-crabs","tag-island-life","tag-island-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}