{"id":2905,"date":"2011-07-19T20:45:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2011-07-19T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:45:46","slug":"strange-things-have-swum-in-the-midnight-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2905","title":{"rendered":"Strange Things Have Swum in the Midnight Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cryptozoologists may rejoice over a new video of a “sea serpent” in Alaska<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cryptozoologists may rejoice over a new video of a “sea serpent” in Alaska.<\/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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-KR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":859,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=859","url_meta":{"origin":2905,"position":0},"title":"40 Things That Only Happen in Movies","author":"Chas S. 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In that case, click the main blog title or the banner photo at the top to switch to the main page.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"The trees have eyes.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/strange-familiars-tree.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":89,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=89","url_meta":{"origin":2905,"position":2},"title":"Nightmare Alley Last November, Jim\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Nightmare Alley Last November, Jim Lewis, the editor of Syzygy, the journal of new religious movements, tipped me off about William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 crime novel Nightmare Alley. 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