{"id":2398,"date":"2013-09-26T00:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T00:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2013-09-26T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T00:56:31","slug":"artist-hideki-tokushige-creates-flowers-from-the-bones-of-dead-mice-and-rats-mail-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/artist-hideki-tokushige-creates-flowers-from-the-bones-of-dead-mice-and-rats-mail-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Hideki Tokushige creates flowers from the bones of dead mice and rats | Mail Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2345016\/Artist-Hideki-Tokushige-creates-flowers-bones-dead-mice-rats.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/article-2345016-1A6A37B1000005DC-302_634x742.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These stunning flowers might look like they have been created using lace or delicately cut from paper but they are actually made from the skeletons of dead animals.<\/p>\n<p>Sculptor Hideki Tokushige purchases rats and mice from pet shops in frozen batches that are normally used to feed reptiles.<\/p>\n<p>He then defrosts the small creatures and cuts away the flesh until he has collected hundreds of miniscule bones.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Because of the delicate nature of the work it can often take up to a month to carefully dissect the small animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2345016\/Artist-Hideki-Tokushige-creates-flowers-bones-dead-mice-rats.html\">Artist Hideki Tokushige creates flowers from the bones of dead mice and rats | Mail Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These stunning flowers might look like they have been created using lace or delicately cut from paper but they are actually made from the skeletons of dead animals. Sculptor Hideki Tokushige purchases rats and mice from pet shops in frozen batches that are normally used to feed reptiles. He then defrosts the small creatures and [&hellip;]<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-CG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}