{"id":661493,"date":"2026-05-24T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:52:08","slug":"niners-te-george-kittle-shrugs-off-injury-to-save-wife-from-arachnid-peta-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661493\/","title":{"rendered":"Niners TE George Kittle shrugs off injury to save wife from arachnid; PETA responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George, a knight without armor, shrugged off his ailment to save Claire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 4 am this morning, as I laid in a deep slumber, I was called to action by my wife who had discovered a spider the size of a half dollar in the bathroom,&#8221; Kittle <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gkittle46\/status\/2054564461797867965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on social media<\/a>. &#8220;Without hesitation I arose to combat the intruder. Claire handed me the slant board I&#8217;ve been using for rehab, and I immediately knew the spider had no chance. It took but 1 attempt to strike down my opponent. I received hugs and kisses for my bravery and fell back asleep with confidence. Have a day gentlemen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though Kittle thankfully emerged from the fracas with no damage to his already ailing Achilles, he did draw the notice of PETA, the biggest animal rights organization on the globe.<\/p>\n<p>PETA argued that &#8220;spiders deserve a good day too,&#8221; and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/peta\/status\/2054666157446103476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> that it was sending a humane bug catcher Kittle&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>With these battles now seemingly behind the All-Pro, he can return his concentration to healing up and tackling the upcoming season. If nothing else, the 49ers standout showed that gentlemanly valor still exists.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, chivalry is not dead, but that spider is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George, a knight without armor, shrugged off his ailment to save Claire. &#8220;At 4 am this morning, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,10031,3,349,6257,215714,560,99],"class_list":["post-661493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-george-kittle","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}