{"id":3212,"date":"2013-06-25T19:08:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2013-06-25T19:08:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:08:52","slug":"plenty-of-leagues-under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"Plenty Of Leagues Under The Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sea Scenery by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/9135225873\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sea Scenery\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5497\/9135225873_2e0f7e0630.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now you might think that the <a title=\"The Under The Sea Expo\" href=\"http:\/\/sandseaandsecondlife.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">under the sea expo<\/a> is all about mermaids, well it&#8217;s not, I mean there are mermaids&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More Mermaids by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/9137448718\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"More Mermaids\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5473\/9137448718_4773d91957.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all of them are in glass tubes either, some are in settings that leave you expecting a man to start shouting &#8220;<em>Roll up roll up<\/em>&#8221; and invite you to a circus show due to their Steampunk surroundings:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Steampunk Mermaids by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/9135230687\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steampunk Mermaids\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2871\/9135230687_9fe178d999.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However there&#8217;s more to the sea than Mermaids, although I must admit I&#8217;m a tad disappointed that during my travels at the expo I haven&#8217;t seen a Hydra or heard anyone shout &#8220;<em>Unleash The Kraken!<\/em>&#8221; there are many wonderful sights under the sea, including flora, fish and some underwater giant Kittycats!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The expo, which ends tomorrow is a nice place to visit because it&#8217;s largely lag free. This is a smaller expo than many, but it&#8217;s a valuable one as it shows yet another fun aspect of Second Life. I also like the flora under the sea:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flora by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/9135227725\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flora\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7391\/9135227725_7de9f01be3.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty of that around, and of course, I&#8217;m sorry I can&#8217;t resist, but yes, there&#8217;s plenty more fish in the sea!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fish Schools by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/9135223365\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fish Schools\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3806\/9135223365_fbd8ca92ac.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However if flora, fish and mermaids aren&#8217;t your thing there are plenty of other style stores there, I saw some diving stores, a breedable store, a game avatar and if that doesn&#8217;t suit you there are clothing stores, maybe a female would like to wear clothing like this on her sea faring travels:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sea Clothing? by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/9135224749\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sea Clothing?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2827\/9135224749_24a5f71ffa.jpg?resize=500%2C298\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However if you&#8217;re really still unconvinced, how about some giant, swimming in goggles Kittycats to tempt you to pay a visit?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sea Cats by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/9135221423\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sea Cats\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3825\/9135221423_e28d08f8c4.jpg?resize=500%2C478\" width=\"500\" height=\"478\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now come on, how can you resist that?<\/p>\n<p>Under The Sea Expo SLURL: <a title=\"Under The Sea Expo SLURL\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Hanalei\/211\/136\/9\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Hanalei\/211\/136\/9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3212\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you might think that the under the sea expo is all about mermaids, well it&#8217;s not, I mean there are mermaids&#8230;. Not all of them are in glass tubes either, some are in settings that leave you expecting a man to start shouting &#8220;Roll up roll up&#8221; and invite you to a circus show &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plenty Of Leagues Under The Sea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[1022,575],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-PO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}