{"id":23109,"date":"2013-07-11T07:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T03:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=23109"},"modified":"2013-07-11T07:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T03:40:46","slug":"man-called-larry-da-leopard-tattoos-his-entire-body-in-big-cat-print-and-admits-he-looks-like-a-cartoon-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=23109","title":{"rendered":"Man called Larry Da Leopard tattoos his entire body in big cat print and admits he looks like a &#8216;cartoon character&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Larry-Da-Leopard6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23107\" alt=\"Larry Da Leopard6\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Larry-Da-Leopard6.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Larry-Da-Leopard6.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Larry-Da-Leopard6-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Larry-Da-Leopard6-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s one thing to show your appreciation for the animal kingdom, but quite another to try to join it.<\/p>\n<p>But that appears to be the lifelong quest of one U.S. man who has tattooed his entire body with leopard spots.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Da Leopard has more than 1,000 big cat markings on his body after spending years getting inked.<\/p>\n<p>Every inch of his body, from his arms and legs to his back and ears, have been tattooed &#8211; including his private parts.<\/p>\n<p>Larry, however, says he is still not finished and that he will not stop until he has become a so-called &#8216;manimal&#8217; &#8211; half man, half animal.<\/p>\n<p>Larry, who lives in Austin, Texas, even goes out in public in a leopard costume and happily has his photo taken with people as he promotes his business as a tattoo artist.<\/p>\n<p>On the U.S. TV show Taboo, Larry revealed his parents cried when they saw his tattoos for the first time and he admits that he does &#8216;look like a cartoon character&#8217;.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to show your appreciation for the animal kingdom, but quite another to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1722],"class_list":["post-23109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-larry-da-leopard","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}