{"id":5533,"date":"2008-07-29T23:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T05:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2008-08-07T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T17:15:08","slug":"plum-island-has-secrets-dead-monster-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/plum-island-has-secrets-dead-monster-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Plum Island has Secrets: Dead <del datetime=\"2008-08-07T17:13:44+00:00\">Monster<\/del> Raccoon Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or this is just some <del datetime=\"2008-08-07T17:13:44+00:00\">random bollocks<\/del> dead raccoon that turned into Conspiracy Fuel.<\/p>\n<p><!--more You decide.--><\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">strange dead critter on Plum Island<\/p><\/div><a href=\"http:\/\/buzzfeed.com\/peggy\/dead-monster-washes-ashore\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"strange animal on Plum Island\" src=\"http:\/\/s.buzzfeed.com\/static\/imagebuzz\/2008\/7\/29\/15\/8505a5ea0eb373f984ba5b6260b72702.jpg\" title=\"strange dead critter\" width=\"494\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a>[\/captio<br \/>\nEditor&#8217;s note: It seems Montauk has a bit of a legend about it: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montauk_Project\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montauk_Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/e\/9fd321b9-83b2-bb50-9b00-2ecee015707e\" class=\"external external_icon\">veronica belmont friendfeed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/buzzfeed.com\/peggy\/dead-monster-washes-ashore\" class=\"external external_icon\">buzzfeed<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> That mystery critter? Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/tetrapodzoology\/2008\/08\/the_montauk_monster.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">it&#8217;s a raccoon<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekologie.com\/2008\/07\/monster_washes_ashore_in_monta.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">Geekologie commenters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/tetrapodzoology\/2008\/08\/the_montauk_monster.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">Tetrapod Zoology<\/a> for clearing that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or this is just some random bollocks dead raccoon that turned into Conspiracy Fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,75],"tags":[401,187,400,397,399,398,10],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-intertube-madness","tag-dead","tag-if-you-say-so","tag-long-island","tag-monster","tag-montauk","tag-plum-island","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}