{"id":342,"date":"2015-11-20T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenjacksonart.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2018-06-03T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:50:54","slug":"loch-ness-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Loch Ness Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nessie1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-343 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nessie1.png\" alt=\"Nessie1\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nessie1.png 576w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nessie1-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nessie1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Monster is The Loch Ness Monster (or as I like to call her, Nessie). \u00a0This creature is one of the better known throughout the world. \u00a0A great deal of speculation surrounds this creature as sightings still seem to happen. \u00a0Many &#8220;sightings&#8221; are dismissed as boat wakes in the water forming a somewhat bumpy-looking crest. \u00a0Others speculate that people are seeing a large fish like a sturgeon, floating logs, etc&#8230; \u00a0The most common appearance of Nessie tends to be a plesiosaur-like creature with a barrel like body, flippers, a long neck, and a dark coloration. \u00a0Many scientists refute the claim that Nessie is a plesiosaur however as anatomically, plesiosaurs were not able to arch their necks in the way many witnesses describe in their sightings. \u00a0Whatever you believe, Nessie is pretty much a monster celebrity and holds a special place in the hearts of monster lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Monster is The Loch Ness Monster (or as I like to call her, Nessie). \u00a0This creature is one of the better known throughout the world. \u00a0A great deal of speculation surrounds this creature as sightings still seem to happen. \u00a0Many &#8220;sightings&#8221; are dismissed as boat wakes in the water forming a somewhat bumpy-looking&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[177,176,271,272,173,269,270,273],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-monster","tag-creature","tag-legend","tag-loch-ness","tag-loch-ness-monster","tag-monster","tag-mythical","tag-nessie","tag-plesiosaur","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}