{"id":543,"date":"2014-05-07T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2014-06-21T21:31:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T02:31:16","slug":"i-am-feeling-a-little-stuffed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/i-am-feeling-a-little-stuffed-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I am feeling a little stuffed today&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Greetings and salutations;<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Once again, I am relieved to find that there are stranger people than me out there. &nbsp; I ran across this link about Walter Potter, who lived around the 1850-1890 time frame. &nbsp; He was interested in taxidermy, &nbsp;and started doing it at the tender age of 15. &nbsp; Today, &nbsp;he would be looked upon with suspicion, I suspect, as this could be a sign of an incipient serial killer. &nbsp;However, in Victorian times, there was much interest in the hobby, and, he ended up creating some of the most amazing dioramas out of small animals that one has ever seen. &nbsp; For us, today, it is a bit weird, and one looks at it with fascination even though there is a strong feeling that one should not&#8230;. Here are a couple of examples of his work: &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beautifuldecay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pottertaxidermy10.jpg\" align=\"center\" \/><br \/>Busy At School<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beautifuldecay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pottertaxidermy15.jpg\" align=\"center\" \/><br \/>A nice game of Croquet<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and, I would suggest you follow the link to read &nbsp;more about &nbsp;his work&#8230;it is pretty amazing: &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/beautifuldecay.com\/2014\/04\/25\/walter-potters-curious-victorian-taxidermy\">Walter Potters taxidermy<\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Greetings and salutations; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Once again, I am relieved to find that there are stranger people than&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/i-am-feeling-a-little-stuffed-today\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[439,22,6,9,443,441,10,11,13,440,18],"tags":[427,429,428],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-ethics","category-general","category-humanity","category-misc","category-multimedia","category-nuttiness","category-observations","category-questionable-decisions","category-sculpture-art-2","category-something-good-this-way-comes","tag-taxidermy","tag-victorian","tag-walter-potter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}