{"id":1095,"date":"2011-02-25T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2011-02-25T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:08:37","slug":"why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-crab-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-crab-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t go in the water: Crab Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewfrompublishing.co.uk\/news_view\/9291\/11\/1\/weymouth-monster-crab-on-show\">Crab Kong <\/a>does not have as catchy of a name as the crab it replaced, Crabzilla, but it appears to be bigger, weighing in at 15kg. <\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, the <del datetime=\"2011-02-25T16:51:27+00:00\">article<\/del> press release doesn&#8217;t tell us what species of giant icky monster this, but the Japanese variety can weigh upward of 19kg, which would be truly worth of a kaiju-riffic name like Crabzilla or Crab Kong. I think it is also why Gamera isn&#8217;t as popular a kaiju as Godzilla. You can&#8217;t add -amera to something and conjure up something giant and menacing. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viewfrompublishing.co.uk\/news_img\/s_9291.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it is reason enough not to go into the water. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crab Kong does not have as catchy of a name as the crab it replaced, Crabzilla, but it appears to be bigger, weighing in at 15kg. Disappointingly, the article press release doesn&#8217;t tell us what species of giant icky monster this, but the Japanese variety can weigh upward of 19kg, which would be truly worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115],"tags":[158,159,69],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-go-in-the-water","tag-kaiju","tag-spider-crab","tag-why-i-dont-go-in-the-water","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-hF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}