{"id":11086,"date":"2019-07-14T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T17:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=11086"},"modified":"2019-07-14T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T17:45:50","slug":"excitement-beyond-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=11086","title":{"rendered":"Excitement beyond belief!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That&#8217;s what I thought when I saw Sunday&#8217;s Mark Trail!  I was <strong>stunned!<\/strong> Then <strong>delighted!<\/strong> Mark Trail was showcasing the mysterious <strong>GIANT ISOPOD<\/strong> in all  its glory for the <em>second<\/em> time in 11 years!  I remember the first strip, in 2008, with the mighty isopod front and center! So majestic! So glorious! So\u2026so\u2026<br \/> \u2026so not there.  Apparently, I was in a giant isopod phase at the time (I think a few other CC folks were as all), and I <em>absconded <\/em>with Mark&#8217;s usual Sunday format to do my own topic on the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.<br \/> I&#8217;m not quite shamefaced, because I think the giant isopod should be celebrated at least once every decade. Well, maybe once every fourscore. <br \/>They go back a long time, anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MT-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MT-26.jpg 765w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MT-26-250x157.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s the &#8220;original&#8221; giant isopod extravaganza. Enjoy Nature! Especially giant isopods!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/not-mt-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/not-mt-5.jpg 650w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/not-mt-5-250x172.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what I thought when I saw Sunday&#8217;s Mark Trail! I was stunned! Then delighted! Mark Trail was showcasing the mysterious GIANT ISOPOD in all its glory for the second time in 11 years! I remember the first strip, in 2008, with the mighty isopod front and center! So majestic! So glorious! So\u2026so\u2026 \u2026so not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-trail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11089,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions\/11089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}