{"id":25467,"date":"2025-10-24T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25467"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:33:01","slug":"halloween-horrors-sharks-in-the-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25467","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Horrors: Sharks in the Basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those fake photos of sharks swimming in subways that showed up after &#8220;Superstorm Sandy&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Well, this photo of sharks in a guy&#8217;s basement in Hudson Valley, New York&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BasementSharks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"474\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BasementSharks.png 720w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BasementSharks-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;was absolutely real. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pn1Yap_PzAo?si=zMd8axDZMKFmL0hO\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Turns out he was smuggling them in the back of his truck to sell on the black market. <\/p>\n<p>So now add &#8220;basement sharks&#8221; to the list of things to irrationally be afraid of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those fake photos of sharks swimming in subways that showed up after &#8220;Superstorm Sandy&#8221;? Well, this photo of sharks in a guy&#8217;s basement in Hudson Valley, New York&#8230; &#8230;was absolutely real. Turns out he was smuggling them in the back of his truck to sell on the black market. So now add &#8220;basement sharks&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,12],"tags":[26,1979,1358,1974],"class_list":["post-25467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-video","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-shark","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25583,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25467\/revisions\/25583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}