{"id":10874,"date":"2010-05-12T07:22:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10874"},"modified":"2010-05-12T07:22:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T12:22:35","slug":"scandinavians-rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10874","title":{"rendered":"Scandinavians Rejoice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven-foot &#8220;King Herring&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100512\/sc_afp\/swedenanimalfishoffbeat\">washes up in Sweden:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Regalecus glesne, known as the King of Herrings or Giant Oarfish, was found dead in the small fishing village of Bovallstrand on Sweden&#8217;s west coast, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from the Norwegian border.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Down at the water, there was something big floating. At first we thought it was a big piece of plastic. But then we saw an eye. I went down to check and saw that it was this extremely strange fish,&#8221; Kurt Ove Eriksson, the passer-by who found the specimen, told daily Svenska Dagbladet.<\/p>\n<p>The rarely seen regalecus, the world&#8217;s longest bony fish, can reach up to 12 meters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, it <em>is <\/em>a big deal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The last time we saw a King of Herrings in Sweden was in 1879,&#8221; the House of the Sea museum in Lysekil, where the fish was taken to, said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some say the fish is dead.<\/p>\n<p>I think Herring the Grey will be replaced by Herring the White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven-foot &#8220;King Herring&#8221; washes up in Sweden: The Regalecus glesne, known as the King of Herrings or Giant Oarfish, was found dead in the small fishing village of Bovallstrand on Sweden&#8217;s west coast, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from the Norwegian border. &#8220;Down at the water, there was something big floating. At first we thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10875,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions\/10875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}