{"id":1405,"date":"2005-06-27T01:28:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T01:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/dance_mermaid_d\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:19:10","slug":"dance_mermaid_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/dance_mermaid_d\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance, Mermaid, Dance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coneyislandusa.com\"  title=\"Coney Island, USA\">Coney Island<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/26\/boobs_mermaids_on_parade.php\"  title=\"Boobs and Mermaids on Parade\">Mermaid Parade<\/a> was, once again, a blast.<\/strong> I would expect no less, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/archives\/2005\/04\/14\/coney_island_may_be_redeveloped.php\" >looming<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/04\/coney_island_may_get_spiffy.php\" >redevelopment<\/a> of the boardwalk area makes me fear that this may be the last time the Mermaid Parade is still a wonderful, messy burst of local character quite like this.<\/p>\n<p>I love the parade more than anything else that happens in New York all year. It&#8217;s the time when worlds collide, but in this case they always do it beautifully. The boardwalk is packed with every slice of life that the city has to offer, and everyone&#8217;s just having fun soaking it all in. Dreamy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<p>Here are a few photos, but for now I&#8217;ve got a whole bunch more <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/ultrasparky\/PhotoAlbum31.html\" >here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/ultrasparky\/PhotoAlbum32.html\" >here<\/a> as well. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n --><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_01.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\"  alt=\"Gender bending mermaid fun\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_02.jpg\" width=\"50%\" height=\"320\"  alt=\"From the green team\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_03.jpg\" width=\"50%\" height=\"320\"  alt=\"Pair under a parasol\"><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_04.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\"  alt=\"Everyone was staring at his basket\"><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_05.jpg\" width=\"50%\" height=\"320\"  alt=\"Punk with parrot\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_06.jpg\" width=\"50%\" height=\"320\"  alt=\"My hero\"><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_07.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\"  alt=\"Dance, mermaid, dance!\"><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_08.jpg\" width=\"50%\" height=\"320\"  alt=\"Silver sea life\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_09.jpg\" width=\"50%\" height=\"320\"  alt=\"They probably had the best view\"><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/mermaid05_10.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\"  alt=\"Wheee!\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coney Island Mermaid Parade was, once again, a blast. I would expect no less, but the looming redevelopment of the boardwalk area makes me fear that this may be the last time the Mermaid Parade is still a wonderful, messy burst of local character quite like this. I love the parade more than anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/dance_mermaid_d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dance, Mermaid, Dance!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultraphotographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70500,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/70500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}