{"id":4311,"date":"2010-06-14T07:02:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2010-06-11T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:13:07","slug":"cabinet-of-curiosities-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4311","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cabinet of Curiosities&#8221; Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/auction-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Auction Items\" title=\"Auction Items\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/auction-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/auction-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/auction.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Creationist &#8220;natural history&#8221; museum in Georgia is auctioning off its collection, and although I despair at giving money to charlatans, there&#8217;s some awesome stuff to be had.  Items up for sale include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>authentic mammoth teeth<\/li>\n<li>leaf fossils<\/li>\n<li>3-pc dinosaur fossil<\/li>\n<li>woolly mammoth hair<\/li>\n<li>dinosaur replicas<\/li>\n<li>mummified cats from Egypt<\/li>\n<li>carved and decorated hippo teeth<\/li>\n<li>authentic skulls<\/li>\n<li>mahogany hand-carved Chinese display case<\/li>\n<li>urns<\/li>\n<li>oils on canvas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Internet bidding is available and many items have no minimum bid, so even if you&#8217;re not in Georgia you might be able to get something marvelous.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.higgenbotham.com\/detail\/?auctionid=1725\">auction<\/a> begins June 25.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><small>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/\">The Art of Darkness<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Creationist &#8220;natural history&#8221; museum in Georgia is auctioning off its collection, and although I despair at giving money to charlatans, there&#8217;s some awesome stuff to be had. Items up for sale include: authentic mammoth teeth leaf fossils 3-pc dinosaur fossil woolly mammoth hair dinosaur replicas mummified cats from Egypt carved and decorated hippo teeth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}