{"id":4761,"date":"2001-05-12T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2001-05-12T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T00:25:19","slug":"nessie-and-the-swedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/2001\/05\/nessie-and-the-swedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nessie and the Swedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching TV news the other day we learned that there is a group of Swedish scientists currently scanning Loch Ness with high-end sonar looking for the famous monster. They have a large net attached to the back of their boat, and they hope to obtain a DNA sample from the creature when they find it. During this little live bit of news, the reporter interviewed a few local folks to get their opinion of it all. One fellow, who was wearing something similar to the &#8220;puffy shirt&#8221; from Seinfeld but otherwise looked like a normal guy, said he had hired a White Witch to cast a spell to prevent the scientists from finding old &#8216;Nessie&#8217;. The second bloke was a humorless uniformed officer from the Northern Constabulary (a fun pair of words to hear a Scotsman say), and he went on to explain that if the scientists were able to obtain a sample of the DNA, they would be doing so without the proper permits for wildlife research. It was too surreal. No word on their status recently, but I&#8217;m sure they won&#8217;t find much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching TV news the other day we learned that there is a group of Swedish scientists currently scanning Loch Ness with high-end sonar looking for the famous monster. They have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimandtodd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}