{"id":428,"date":"2023-11-04T20:14:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alec.home-share.me\/?page_id=428"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:51:15","slug":"lab-and-prep-skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alec.home-share.me\/?page_id=428","title":{"rendered":"Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">FossiLab \/ Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow 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