{"id":12130,"date":"2016-02-19T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2016-02-19T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T00:03:44","slug":"propaganda-watch-how-photo-angles-can-deceive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/19\/propaganda-watch-how-photo-angles-can-deceive\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Watch: How Photo Angles Can Deceive"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have heard the saying from Edgar Allen Poe “Only Believe half of what you see and Nothing that you hear.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>This post and picture proves that advice true! -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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It looks like a bizarre monster from the deep, but a photo going around taken in\u00a0Lake Macquarie is likely all too terrestrial. The sea animal some have been calling “the Swansea monster” and suspecting is some kind of crocodile relative is likely just a pike eel.<\/p>\n

The photographer who took it, Robert Tyndall, told the Newcastle Herald<\/a>\u00a0the actual fish is about four-and-a-half feet long, but the angle makes it seem much, much bigger\u2014part of why it took off on the Internet like a neo-Montauk monster<\/a>. Biologist Julian Pepperell confirmed the creature as a pike eel, and said they frequently end up in fisherman’s net.<\/p>\n

If you wanted a silver lining on this being a monster, though, there’s this much: pike eels are known for a ferocious bite and aggressive behavior, according to Pepperell. “They have incredibly strong muscle and their teeth are geared towards inflicting slashing wounds,” he told the Herald. It may not be a crocodile, a shark, or a scientifically unrealistic combination of the two, but your hand might hurt if you get bit, that is to say.<\/div>\n
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Read the Original Article at Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You have heard the saying from Edgar Allen Poe “Only Believe half of what you see and Nothing that you hear.”\u00a0This post and picture proves that advice true! -SF It looks like a bizarre monster from the deep, but a photo going around taken in\u00a0Lake Macquarie is likely all too terrestrial. The sea animal some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,2967],"tags":[4749,4750,3702,4751],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}