{"id":1599,"date":"2010-03-12T07:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2010-03-07T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:57:47","slug":"the-great-white-squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/the-great-white-squid.html","title":{"rendered":"The Great White Squid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~jasonku\/img\/sharktopus1_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Sharktopus\" src=\"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~jasonku\/img\/sharktopus1_2.jpg\" alt=\"Sharktopus\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>We recently learned of the new and delightfully dreadful SyFy Network epic titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/02\/sharktopus.html\">Sharktopus<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 It turns out they are frightfully close to it maybe being a documentary rather than a monster film.<\/p>\n<p>Marine ecologist Michael Domeier of the Marine Conservation Science  Institute has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-shark7-2010mar07,0,5015116.story\">studying Great White Shark migration habits<\/a>, and believes the iconic eating machines travel to the deep pacific to battle and then dine on Giant Squid.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jollygoodshow.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/mega-shark\/mega_shark_gibson_lo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Gibson in MSvGO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jollygoodshow.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/mega-shark\/mega_shark_gibson_lo.jpg\" alt=\"Gibson in MSvGO\" width=\"217\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gibson in Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The finding is still somewhat controversial in that no one can explain why a shark, which basically views the entire ocean as its private buffet table, would swim so far for a meal.\u00a0 Maybe it just has a hankerin&#8217; now and again for a little calamari.\u00a0 Or maybe, this is a prehistoric inter-species rivalry that makes cats and dogs look like best pals.<\/p>\n<p>Only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jollygoodshow.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/mega-shark\/mega_shark_gibson_lo.jpg\">Debbie Gibson<\/a> knows for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently learned of the new and delightfully dreadful SyFy Network epic titled &#8220;Sharktopus&#8220;.\u00a0 It turns out they are frightfully<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/the-great-white-squid.html\" title=\"Read The Great White Squid\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun","category-madscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}