{"id":25479,"date":"2018-10-12T14:29:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25479"},"modified":"2018-10-12T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T21:29:26","slug":"halloween-aquariums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/halloween-aquariums\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween&#8217;s Cool Creatures: Spookfish, Vampire Squid and Goblinshark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/spookyfish.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When guests show up at their local aquariums wearing spooky costumes for Halloween events, many have no idea that nature beat them to the punch. A cast of characters from the deep, dark, mysterious seas unveils surprisingly haunting appearances and names to match.<\/p>\n<p>The coffin fish &#8211; some say it looks like death; spookfish &#8211; looks like a ghost or an off-world alien with its big black eye sockets; vampire squid; ghostfish; goblinshark&#8230; the list goes on. If you could create costumes to mimic these eerie water-world creatures, you&#8217;d surely win an award!<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s aquariums offer a treasure trove of things to see and learn about. And aquarium staff like to engage the public in all the cool stuff at their access. If Halloween&#8217;s your thing, and aquariums are within your reach, SeeCalifornia&#8217;s made a list of events offered this season.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/aquariums\/halloween.html\">California Aquarium Halloween Celebrations<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>LA JOLLA: Birch Aquarium Haunted Aquarium Sea Monster Mash<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Aquarium of the Pacific Scarium of the Pacific | Haunted Atlantis | Halloween Family Nights<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Monterey Bay Aquarium Members&#8217; Halloween Dinner Dance &#8211; a great reason to get a membership!<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: SeaWorld San Diego Halloween Spooktacular September through October<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium SuperNatural Halloween<\/li>\n<li>SAN PEDRO: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Sea Scare<\/li>\n<li>SANTA MONICA: Heal the Bay Aquarium Fishy Fest at Santa Monica Pier with Halloween Parade, Haunted Storm Drain and more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When guests show up at their local aquariums wearing spooky costumes for Halloween events, many have no idea that nature beat them to the punch. A cast of characters from the deep, dark, mysterious seas unveils surprisingly haunting appearances and names to match. The coffin fish &#8211; some say it looks like death; spookfish &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25480,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479\/revisions\/25480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}