{"id":1009,"date":"2011-07-14T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T02:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2012-01-04T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:27:07","slug":"lamprey-the-creeping-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Lamprey: The Creeping Horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

My officemate went out for lunch and had Lamprey<\/a>. I remarked something along the lines of “ugh, it’s a parasite!” “No, it’s fish!” Well, a parasitic <\/em>fish!” which lead to looking it up to find out what it does eat.<\/p>\n

I had to recoil at the picture of that gaping toothy maw in the picture. “That thing gives me the creeping horrors.” <\/p>\n

The creeping horrors, I explained, is a complex and terrible feeling. Not just that it frightens <\/em>me, but that I am quietly disturbed somewhere deep in the foundations of my self that such a creature exists in the real world, and is not merely the product of a sick mind in a horror movie. Indeed, that such a terrifying visage is so mundane that my friend just had one for lunch. It’s a slow, insidious feeling of subtle horror that gradually eats away at a person from within, at first a mere tingling of disquiet in the back of the head that the universe may not be such a friendly place after all, and ending with all rational thought submerged beneath quivering black jelly of pure evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My officemate went out for lunch and had Lamprey. I remarked something along the lines of “ugh, it’s a parasite!” “No, it’s fish!” Well, a parasitic fish!” which lead to looking it up to find out what it does eat. I had to recoil at the picture of that gaping toothy maw in the picture. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}