{"id":49737,"date":"2019-06-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/video-watch-this-beautifully-grotesque-salmon-heart-beat\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:00:00","slug":"video-watch-this-beautifully-grotesque-salmon-heart-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/video-watch-this-beautifully-grotesque-salmon-heart-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Watch this &#8216;beautifully grotesque&#8217; salmon heart beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7LaJcRyHsY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is too weird not to share.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau Empire photographer Michael Penn was down at the dock across from the office, photographing anglers fishing for an upcoming article in Sunday&rsquo;s paper.<\/p>\n<p>He was photographing Alexander Masters as he cleaned his catch when all of a sudden Masters asked: &ldquo;Have you ever seen this before?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Masters pulled the king salmon&rsquo;s heart out from its body and placed it on the fish station. The heart &mdash; the size of a cherry, and just as pink &mdash; kept beating.<\/p>\n<p>It was a surreal sight, and a bit nauseating, Penn said, to see the asomatous organ, as Masters kept cleaning the fish.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was shocked,&rdquo; Penn said, &ldquo;but I still recorded.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Penn described the scene as &ldquo;beautifully grotesque.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>See for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is too weird not to share. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":49738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[319],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49737"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}