{"id":332,"date":"2015-11-13T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T22:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenjacksonart.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2018-06-03T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:52:43","slug":"mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mermaid1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-333 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mermaid1.png\" alt=\"Mermaid1\" width=\"635\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mermaid1.png 635w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mermaid1-130x150.png 130w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mermaid1-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Monster is the mermaid. \u00a0Now, one wouldn&#8217;t usually think of a mermaid as a monster. \u00a0They&#8217;re supposed to be beautiful, elegant creatures. \u00a0Think about it though&#8230;they have to be able to defend themselves against things like sharks, squid, whales, and most likely, humans. \u00a0My thought was to make her a bit more fish-like with a few mammalian features. \u00a0I think of a creature like this being shaped like a torpedo to swim quickly. \u00a0Her &#8220;fluke&#8221; is situated like a dolphin or a whale so she sort of undulates through the water. \u00a0Her hands are webbed and clawed for dexterity and protection. \u00a0She has large eyes which help her see predators and prey. \u00a0Her &#8220;hair&#8221; is made up of tentacles much like that of a squid or an octopus. \u00a0When she has captured her prey, she will use the tentacles to hold on as she consumes it. \u00a0Her face is pleasant and maybe even a bit alluring but her mouth is full of razor-sharp teeth. \u00a0She is not one to be underestimated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Monster is the mermaid. \u00a0Now, one wouldn&#8217;t usually think of a mermaid as a monster. \u00a0They&#8217;re supposed to be beautiful, elegant creatures. \u00a0Think about it though&#8230;they have to be able to defend themselves against things like sharks, squid, whales, and most likely, humans. \u00a0My thought was to make her a bit more fish-like&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[177,260,173,262,261],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-monster","tag-creature","tag-mermaid","tag-monster","tag-ocean","tag-sea","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}