{"id":774,"date":"2008-04-09T16:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2008-04-09T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T16:14:58","slug":"manbeasts-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Manbeasts of New Zealand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not, as it happens, a reference to rugby league.<br \/>\nThis week&#8217;s Salient (local university rag, surprisingly good this year) has a feature interview with Tony Lucas of <a href=http:\/\/nzcryptozoologist0.tripod.com\/>NZ Cryptoologist<\/a> talking about the mysterious critters of the NZ depths.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a great page on the <a href=http:\/\/nzcryptozoologist0.tripod.com\/id11.html>Maero or Moehau<\/a>, NZ&#8217;s answer to bigfoot. <em>The Moehau were describes by the Maori as being &#8220;Terrible creatures, half man, half animal&#8221;, with a very aggressive temperament, they were only too happy to massacre and eat anyone that strayed into their domain.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nI love this stuff. <em>Why have no bodies of these beasts ever been found? I think that is readily explained by the fact that these &#8216;Manimals&#8217; may have a conception of death and bury their deceased.<\/em><br \/>\nAlso on the site is a slightly more fact-based account of the <a href=http:\/\/nzcryptozoologist0.tripod.com\/id18.html>elusive NZ moose<\/a>, largely accepted to be living in the inaccessible depths of Fiordland but never seen by human eyes. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, that&#8217;s another reason why this is a damn cool country: <strong>we have secret mooses, and we can prove it with science!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not, as it happens, a reference to rugby league. This week&#8217;s Salient (local university rag, surprisingly good this year) has a feature interview with Tony Lucas of NZ Cryptoologist talking about the mysterious critters of the NZ depths. There&#8217;s a great page on the Maero or Moehau, NZ&#8217;s answer to bigfoot. The Moehau were describes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=774\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manbeasts of New Zealand!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-also"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-cu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}