{"id":1858,"date":"2012-08-17T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2012-08-17T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:44:35","slug":"monster-kid-request-sea-monsters-from-a-to-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/monster-kid-request-sea-monsters-from-a-to-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Kid Request: Sea Monsters from A to Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, the Monster Kid loves monsters. He especially loves cryptids and sea monsters. So although he hasn&#8217;t actually asked for the ABC&#8217;s of sea monsters, I&#8217;m pretty sure he would if he could. I&#8217;m not sure about sharing this with him, as I&#8217;m not really up to explaining Cthulu to a six year old (nor do I think it&#8217;s appropriate, although I&#8217;m sure a fair share of parents who read this have probably given their kid a plush Cthulu- and I have it on good authority that it can get rid of closet monsters). But he would LOVE seeing some of his favorites&#8211; known, unknown, and fictional&#8211; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2012\/08\/sea-monsters-a-z\">this list<\/a> provided by Tor.com. It&#8217;s all kinds of awesome, with everything from the Kraken (with a great pic from <em>Clash of the Titans<\/em>) to the Gill-man, from the Fiji Mermaid to the vampire squid. This is just one article from Tor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/features\/series\/sea-monster-week\">Sea Monster Week<\/a>, which actually appears to be this week. I&#8217;m so sad I didn&#8217;t find this till now! In addition to a week&#8217;s worth of posts (one of which is about the Gill-man, a favorite of the kid&#8217;s), there are excerpts from several related books at the bottom. These are way too old for him, but something you might enjoy, even if you aren&#8217;t personally obsessed with sea creatures and killer animals. Moby Dick, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, the Monster Kid loves monsters. He especially loves cryptids and sea monsters. So although he hasn&#8217;t actually asked for the ABC&#8217;s of sea monsters, I&#8217;m pretty sure he would if he could. I&#8217;m not sure about sharing this with him, as I&#8217;m not really up to explaining Cthulu to a six year old<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/monster-kid-request-sea-monsters-from-a-to-z\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1021,1191,806,1030,1018,1179,1190,1188,1189],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clash-of-the-titans","tag-creature-from-the-black-lagoon","tag-cryptids","tag-horror-resources","tag-monster-kid-request","tag-monsters","tag-sea-monster-week","tag-sea-monsters","tag-tor-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}