{"id":20,"date":"2006-07-07T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-07-07T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T23:45:12","slug":"gaffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20","title":{"rendered":"Gaffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The critters in the post below got me thinking about gaffs &#8211; taxidermy where one cobbles together a mount from pieces, parts and whatever is handy. The canonical gaff is\/was P. T. Barnum&#8217;s <a title=\"Feejee Mermaid\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feejee_Mermaid\">Feejee Mermaid<\/a>; she&#8217;s not what I think of when I think mermaid, but she&#8217;s &#8220;This way to the egress&#8221; Barnum all the way. A while ago I ran across the work of Sarina Brewer whose <a title=\"Brewer's gaffs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.customcreaturetaxidermy.com\/fantasy\/fantasy.html\">gaffs<\/a> include mermaids and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jenny_Haniver\">Jenny Hanivers<\/a> among other wild stuff. The etymology of Jenny Haniver is worth the detour into the world of aberrant taxidermy by itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critters in the post below got me thinking about gaffs &#8211; taxidermy where one cobbles together a mount from pieces, parts and whatever is handy. The canonical gaff is\/was P. T. Barnum&#8217;s Feejee Mermaid; she&#8217;s not what I think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wunderkammer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sdqxx-gaffs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}