{"id":1616,"date":"2008-06-01T14:06:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T13:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2008-06-01T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T13:02:35","slug":"jesus-saves-the-mozart-of-taxidermy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Jesus saves the Mozart of Taxidermy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Financial Times<\/span> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/00931422-2b86-11dd-a7fc-000077b07658.html\">a strangely moving story<\/a> about a man whose mission it is to stuff very small and unremarkable fish. <\/p>\n\n<blockquote>I started my taxidermy business when I was 22 and I struggled to earn a living for 12 years, partly because of the cost of equipment.\nI also started doing drugs. I thought of myself as an artist who needed that high to be inspired. My skills improved, and I won the World Championship for fish taxidermy in 2003. But at the same time, my problems grew bigger.<br \/>\nI got to the point where I had to quit taxidermy. I felt like I had lost everything, but actually, this was a necessary step. I found Jesus and started to work as a precision mechanic. I fell in love and got married. I was convinced that I would never work as a taxidermist again when, last year, I had an inspiration from God. He gave me the feeling that it is time to restart.<br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s hard to earn a living with this job, but I hope the title I won in February will help &ndash; I was named best fish taxidermist at the World Taxidermy Championship in Salzburg. I put two months of work into my exhibit, which was a 9cm European bullhead. The judges were particularly impressed by the fin, which is 0.1mm thick. One even called me the &ldquo;Mozart of taxidermy&rdquo;.<br \/>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times has a strangely moving story about a man whose mission it is to stuff very small and unremarkable fish. I started my taxidermy business when I was 22 and I struggled to earn a living for 12 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}