{"id":2352,"date":"2013-06-12T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2013-06-12T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:54:14","slug":"louisiana-traveler-taxidermists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/louisiana-traveler-taxidermists\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Traveler: Taxidermists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2354\" alt=\"22569162_BG3\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/22569162_BG3-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/22569162_BG3-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/22569162_BG3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Like father, like son. Josh German says he&#8217;s learned a lot over the years, watching his award-winning father, Steve, in his taxidermy shop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a little kid running around the taxidermy shop, I&#8217;d play with things,&#8221; said Josh. &#8220;I&#8217;d grab foam, always studying Dad and following in his footsteps. When I was probably about 10 or 11, I really striked an interest in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taxidermy is known as &#8220;the arrangement of skin.&#8221; Steve&#8217;s been doing it for over four decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never dreamed 40 years ago when I started this business that I would be mounting zebras and giraffes and hyenas and stuff like that,&#8221; said Steve. &#8220;It&#8217;s mind boggling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/story\/22569162\/la-traveler\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gdl-button shortcode-medium-button\" style=\"color:#COLOR_CODE; background-color:#COLOR_CODE; border-color:#0b0000; \">READ FULL STORY<\/a>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/kplc.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=341097;hostDomain=www.kplctv.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=8983480;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay\"><\/script><a title=\"KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kplctv.com\">KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like father, like son. Josh German says he&#8217;s learned a lot over the years, watching his award-winning father, Steve, in his taxidermy shop. &#8220;As a little kid running around the taxidermy shop, I&#8217;d play with things,&#8221; said Josh. &#8220;I&#8217;d grab foam, always studying Dad and following in his footsteps. When I was probably about 10 or 11, I really striked an interest in it.&#8221; Taxidermy is known as &#8220;the arrangement of skin.&#8221; Steve&#8217;s been doing it for over four decades. &#8220;I never dreamed 40 years ago when I started this business that I would be mounting zebras and giraffes and hyenas and stuff like that,&#8221; said Steve. &#8220;It&#8217;s mind boggling.&#8221; KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}