{"id":2297,"date":"2019-12-11T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2019-12-21T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T16:33:19","slug":"lizard-man-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/11\/lizard-man-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizard Man Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I see the elusive <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/14\/the-lizard-man-returns\/\">Lizard Man in the neighborhood<\/a>, I get excited. After all, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/portfolio\/lizard-man-of-crabtree-county\/\">a book about him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know he&#8217;s actually not that elusive during the holidays? You might think that&#8217;s strange, but I guess he catches the Christmas spirit, just like the rest of us. <\/p>\n<p>Dinosaur, you say?<\/p>\n<p>Pish posh.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the Lizard Man. In a Santa hat. Hanging out with Yoda. And a pink flamingo.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing strange about that.<br \/>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery87\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-3 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa3.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"923\" alt=\"Dinosaur in Santa Hat\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa3.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa3-300x270.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa3-768x692.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa2.jpg\" width=\"972\" height=\"945\" alt=\"Dinosaur in Santa Hat\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa2.jpg 972w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa2-300x292.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa2-768x747.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa4.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"776\" alt=\"Dinosaur in Santa Hat\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa4.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa4-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lizard-Man-Santa4-768x582.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I see the elusive Lizard Man in the neighborhood, I get excited. After all, I wrote a book about him. Did you know he&#8217;s actually not that elusive during the holidays? You might think that&#8217;s strange, but I guess &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/11\/lizard-man-santa\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20,25],"tags":[29,12,26],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-holidays","tag-neighborhood","tag-walkabout-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}