{"id":2210,"date":"2010-07-08T19:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2014-02-05T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T02:56:19","slug":"the-mermaid-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/the-mermaid-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mermaid Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2211\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jesse-by-The-Mucky-Duck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2211\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2211\" title=\"Jesse by The Mucky Duck\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jesse-by-The-Mucky-Duck-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jesse-by-The-Mucky-Duck-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jesse-by-The-Mucky-Duck-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse beside The Mucky Duck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been to The Mucky Duck this year, you might have had Jesse help you find a parking place&#8230;. and do a little shell magic for your kids too. He has a magic hat he said was given to him by a mermaid who gave him the power to make shells appear and disappear when he wears it. So now he treats customers and kids with a little magic and gives them a shell to take home with them. How sweet, huh?<\/p>\n<p>So, one day \u00a0I asked Jesse to show me the kinds of shells he was giving to the kids. He opened his shell bag (you&#8217;ll get a kick out this too) and showed me all of these shells from the Philippines or somewhere else&#8230;..no local shells. Whaaaat? Well, we fixed that&#8230;&#8230; he now gives the kids LOCAL shells that were found on one our local beaches. I&#8217;m sure that mermaid is much happier now too, right?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2214\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jesse-on-the-Mucky-Duck-beach.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2214 \" title=\"Jesse on the Mucky Duck beach\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jesse-on-the-Mucky-Duck-beach-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jesse-on-the-Mucky-Duck-beach-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jesse-on-the-Mucky-Duck-beach-1023x768.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse on the Mucky Duck beach with his shell bag<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2215\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mermaid-maze1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2215\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2215 \" title=\"Mermaid maze1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mermaid-maze1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mermaid-maze1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mermaid-maze1.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mermaid maze&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0 Photo by Danny Morgan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Do you think the mermaid made this magical maze on Algier&#8217;s beach too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been to The Mucky Duck this year, you might have had Jesse help you find a parking place&#8230;. and do a little shell magic for your kids too. He has a magic hat he said was given to him by a mermaid who gave him the power to make shells appear and disappear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[170,2079,375,372,374,137,2082,373,71,80,81],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-captiva","tag-captiva-island","tag-algiers-beach","tag-magic","tag-mermaid","tag-sand-maze","tag-sanibel-island","tag-seashells","tag-shell-bag","tag-shelling","tag-shells","tag-the-mucky-duck","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}