{"id":1605,"date":"2022-04-01t09:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-01t09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2022-04-01t18:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01t18:02:18","slug":"shocking-new-species-discovered-at-monahans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/shocking-new-species-discovered-at-monahans\/","title":{"rendered":"shocking new species discovery at monahan&#8217;s: seeing-eye oyster from wellfleet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>shucking oysters on this early april friday morning i popped the top shell off a nice plump wellfleet and i experienced a sight\u00a0<strong>so<\/strong>\u00a0frightening that my knees buckled!<\/p>\n<p><strong>looking down on one of thousands of oysters i&#8217;ve shucked in my life, never has one looked back up at me!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6615\" src=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/seeing-eye-oyster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/seeing-eye-oyster.jpg 400w, \/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/seeing-eye-oyster-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the first thing i did was to show this freak of nature to the staff. some laughed thinking it was a joke, some were puzzled or even scared, but all agreed that it was one of the plumpest, most succulent and beautiful oysters we&#8217;d ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>do i call the news media?&#8230;a u of m marine biologist? or do i just squeeze a little lemon on it and experience something that no one has ever experienced before?<\/strong> i decided on the latter, so i dressed it up on a plate of ice, called <a title=\"lisa monahan photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lisamonahanphoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my wife, a photographer<\/a> and told her to get down to the market \u2014fast! she arrived, captured the image, and as i picked the oyster up to savor it&#8217;s essence i took one last look at this amazing creature.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>we looked eye to eye\u2014and in a slow and almost sensuous way\u2014the oyster winked at me!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>on the verge of passing out, i just couldn&#8217;t do it. she remains, at least for the rest of this april fool&#8217;s day, on display at monahan&#8217;s seafood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shucking oysters on this early april friday morning i popped the top shell off a nice plump wellfleet and i experienced a sight so frightening that my knees buckled&#8230;i called my wife who is a photographer and told her to get down to the market \u2014fast! <\/p>\n<p>looking down on one of thousands of oysters i&#8217;ve shucked in my life, never has one looked back up at me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[365,138],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}