{"id":17361,"date":"2015-10-22T00:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17361"},"modified":"2015-10-22T00:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:33:17","slug":"eels-and-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/22\/eels-and-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Eels and horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sealandillustrat00buel\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"horses2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/horses2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My internet connection has been down all evening so this interim post arrives via the miracle of mobile-phone dialup. The picture is from JW Buel&#8217;s catalogue of animal mayhem, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sealandillustrat00buel\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sea and Land<\/em><\/a> (1887), and shows the alleged practice of fishing for electric eels with horses. If this seems unlikely it&#8217;s one of the more plausible scenarios in Buel&#8217;s illustrated history of &#8220;the wonderful and curious things of nature existing before and since the Deluge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/03\/sea-and-land-an-illustrated-history\/\">Sea and Land: An Illustrated History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My internet connection has been down all evening so this interim post arrives via the miracle of mobile-phone dialup. The picture is from JW Buel&#8217;s catalogue of animal mayhem, Sea and Land (1887), and shows the alleged practice of fishing for electric eels with horses. If this seems unlikely it&#8217;s one of the more plausible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/22\/eels-and-horses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eels and horses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[3661],"class_list":["post-17361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-jw-buel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4w1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}