{"id":11622,"date":"2008-11-08T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/11\/08\/11622.html"},"modified":"2008-11-08T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T19:15:46","slug":"more-species-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/11\/08\/more-species-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"More species identification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mary Anne has been crocheting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamohanraj.com\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=4588\">cute wee beastie<\/a>. Originally, the idea was for it to become an elephant, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamohanraj.com\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=4591\">even after adding feet<\/a>, Mary Anne is dubious about its elephantosity.<\/p>\n<p>She has asked her readers what it is, if it isn't an elephant. I, of course, maintain that it's a baby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/personal\/perennial\/heffalumps\/\">heffalump<\/a>. (You can tell it's a baby by the big neotenic eyes.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I invite y'all zoologist types to go take a look and let Mary Anne know what kind of creature it is.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to come up with a good word for the study of stuffed-animal cladistics, but the best I could manage was <i>farcizoology<\/i> (from Latin <i>farcire<\/i>, \"to stuff\"), which I'm not thrilled with. Suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n<p>(Addendum, added in 2016: see a <a href=\"http:\/\/maryannemohanraj.com\/2008\/11\/09\/had-a-nice-day\/\">later entry<\/a> of Mary Anne's for photos of the completed critter.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Anne has been crocheting a cute wee beastie. Originally, the idea was for it to become an elephant, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heffalumps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}