{"id":59025,"date":"2009-08-13T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2009\/08\/13\/israels-million-dollar-mermaid-could-be-a-boon-for-tourism\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T01:02:29","slug":"israels-million-dollar-mermaid-could-be-a-boon-for-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2009\/08\/13\/israels-million-dollar-mermaid-could-be-a-boon-for-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8221;s million dollar &#8221;mermaid&#8221; could be a boon for tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Tourists could be set to flock to a town in Israel after the local authorities were deluged by reported sightings of a mermaid.<br \/>\nThe town council of Kirvat Yam, near Haifa, has stumped up a $1.2m (\u00a3609,000) reward for anyone who can prove the creature&#8217;s existence with a photograph. &#8216;Many people are telling us they are sure they&#8217;ve seen a mermaid and they are all independent of each other,&#8217; spokesman Natti Zilberman told Sky News.<br \/>\n&#8216;They say it is a female figure, it looks like a young girl.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe &#8216;mermaid&#8217; has only been spotted at sunset and people are turning out in their droves in the hope of catching sight of the creature &#8211; and banking the reward.<br \/>\nMr Zilberman added: &#8216;People say it is half girl, half fish, jumping like a dolphin. It does all kinds of tricks then disappears.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe town hopes the sightings will bring more tourism to the region, said Mr Zilberman. &#8216;I believe, if there really is a mermaid, then so many people and tourists will come to Kiryat Yam, a lot more money will be made than a $1m.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists could be set to flock to a town in Israel after the local authorities were deluged by reported sightings of a mermaid. The town council of Kirvat Yam, near Haifa, has stumped up a $1.2m (\u00a3609,000) reward for anyone who can prove the creature&#8217;s existence with a photograph. &#8216;Many people are telling us they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}