Kelce\u2019s podcast “New Heights”<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, the couple had a little banter about how he loves otters and loves sending her videos of the furry sea creatures.<\/p>\n\u201cOne of my favorite theories is that we have a sea otter on our exhibit whose name is Opal and she was named by the fans through an online poll, and I wonder if Taylor Swift may have been one of the people that voted for the name Opal,\u201d MacDonald said, adding that opal is Kelce\u2019s birthstone and that Opalite is the name of one of Swift\u2019s songs.<\/p>\n
Whatever the reason, the aquarium and Liberty Graphics, an employee-owned company printing the T-shirts, are reveling in the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a company based in Maine who were as taken by surprise as us, but who are also as delighted to have this opportunity to be part of this amazing moment that does so much for sea otters and for ocean conservation,\u201d MacDonald said.<\/p>\n
Liberty Graphics will use 100% cotton in the T-shirts and water-based ink, which is more ocean-friendly and sustainable, she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re also working to make sure that the packaging doesn\u2019t use plastic,” she added. <\/p>\n
The company of 50 employees normally produces 1,500 shirts a day, said Matt Enos, a company manager.<\/p>\n
Enos said that beginning Monday the company will probably have to focus most of its resources on fulfilling T-shirt orders from Swifties.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely didn\u2019t envision something this big but it\u2019s a pretty good problem to have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco (AP) \u2014 A Northern California aquarium has raised more than $2 million for sea otter conservation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[65056,50,1763,138,156,3717,157,111,139,69,5021],"class_list":["post-85528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-65056","tag-animals","tag-article","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}