{"id":11226,"date":"2015-02-09T04:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T22:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=11226"},"modified":"2015-02-09T04:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T22:32:25","slug":"the-9-greatest-monsters-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2015\/02\/the-9-greatest-monsters-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"THE 9 GREATEST MONSTERS IN NORTH AMERICA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/unclassified\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1691\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unclassified.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"unclassified\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/the-9-greatest-monsters-in-north-america-1677861487\" target=\"_\">I09<\/a> has published a listing of what they believe are the nine <em>&#8220;greatest&#8221;<\/em> monsters of North America.<\/p>\n<p>While I09&#8217;s assertions are certainly up for debate &#8212; heck we all have our favorite monsters &#8211; of particular interest to us here at American Monsters is the fact that they cite our article regarding one of our all time favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/aquatic-enigmas\/\" target=\"_\">AQUATIC ENIGMAS<\/a>&#8230; the creep-tastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/10\/thetis-lake-monster-canada\/\" target=\"_\">THETIS LAKE MONSTER<\/a>! Here&#8217;s the quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4996\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thetis-Lake-Monster.jpg?resize=141%2C300\" alt=\"thetis Lake Monster\" width=\"141\" height=\"300\" \/><em>&#8220;This creature&#8217;s classification is sorta a more sinister spin on the Creature from the Black Lagoon, described by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/10\/thetis-lake-monster-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Monsters<\/a> as &#8216;a grisly aberration of natural selection with an epidermis con<\/em><em>sisting solely of silver, fish-like scales. This animal&#8217;s horrifying visage is made complete by the six, razor-sharp spikes said to protrude from its amphibious skull.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I09 has published a listing of what they believe are the nine &#8220;greatest&#8221; monsters of North America. While I09&#8217;s assertions are certainly up for debate &#8212; heck we all have our favorite monsters &#8211; of particular interest to us here at American Monsters is the fact that they cite our article regarding one of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":11958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,156,60,830,828,260,387,94,829,641,383],"class_list":{"0":"post-11226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bigfoot","9":"tag-champ","10":"tag-dog-men","11":"tag-dogman","12":"tag-greatest-monsters","13":"tag-jersey-devil","14":"tag-lizard-man","15":"tag-mothman","16":"tag-north-american-monsters","17":"tag-thetis-lake-monster","18":"tag-thetis-monster"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/THETIS-LAKE-MONSTER_morphy.jpg?fit=391%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11228,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions\/11228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}