{"id":278,"date":"2014-12-08T13:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-12-08T13:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:56:17","slug":"the-death-of-taxidermy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Taxidermy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/114350df5932dc726fcc4d57ba9aef7e\/tumblr_nfmjyj41a01r5568mo1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\nJuly 26, 1959: \u201cTaxes are the death of taxidermy,\u201d lamented Elmer E. Rowland (not pictured) <a href=\"http:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1959\/07\/26\/110086879.html?pageNumber=48\">in an article<\/a> about a bear market for taxidermists, who were closing down their shops. The demand for stuffed tigers or mounted marlins wasn\u2019t the same as it was in the days of the Vanderbilts or Astors, they said. Fred Sauter, Mr. Rowland\u2019s associate in the photo, said: \u201cSome of the specimens in the old days would take up a whole wall in somebody\u2019s mansion. Now who has a wall that big?\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: #1a1a1a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, 1959: \u201cTaxes are the death of taxidermy,\u201d lamented Elmer E. Rowland (not pictured) in an article about a bear market for taxidermists, who were closing down their shops. The demand for stuffed tigers or mounted marlins wasn\u2019t the same as it was in the days of the Vanderbilts or Astors, they said. Fred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-research","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}