{"id":584,"date":"2023-07-03T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:05:17","slug":"mermaid-on-the-beach-at-ocean-grove-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/mermaid-on-the-beach-at-ocean-grove-nj\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid on the beach at Ocean Grove, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to see mermaid art or home decor like the sculpture attached to the front of a home in Ocean Grove, as seen above. But it&#8217;s a whole different thing when you&#8217;re sitting on the beach and see a mermaid laying on the sand about 50 feet away! I was just sitting in my beach chair, minding my own business, when I looked down the beach to the right, and saw this &#8220;mermaid&#8221; just relaxing in the sand. I didn&#8217;t see anyone taking pictures like it was something for Instagram or any other social media, just a woman in a mermaid costume relaxing and enjoying herself. Or maybe it really was a mermaid?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3474\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mermaid-on-the-beach-Ocean-Grove.jpg\" alt=\"mermaid on the beach at Ocean Grove, NJ\" width=\"950\" height=\"650\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mermaid-on-the-beach-Ocean-Grove.jpg 950w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mermaid-on-the-beach-Ocean-Grove-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mermaid-on-the-beach-Ocean-Grove-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mermaid on the beach at Ocean Grove, NJ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to see mermaid art or home decor like the sculpture attached to the front of a home in Ocean Grove, as seen above. But it&#8217;s a whole different thing when you&#8217;re sitting on the beach and see a mermaid laying on the sand about 50 feet away! I was just sitting in &#8230; <a title=\"Mermaid on the beach at Ocean Grove, NJ\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/mermaid-on-the-beach-at-ocean-grove-nj\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mermaid on the beach at Ocean Grove, NJ\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[140,409,478,558],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-beach","tag-jersey-shore","tag-mermaid","tag-ocean-grove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}