{"id":29,"date":"2012-08-31T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/igreenisthenewblack.wordpress.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-11-18T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:41:19","slug":"elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/igreenisthenewblack.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/elephant1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31 aligncenter\" title=\"elephant1\" src=\"http:\/\/igreenisthenewblack.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/elephant1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><strong>Punished every day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">All &#8216;tame&#8217; Elephants are trained with bullhooks. Bullhooks are hooks attached to long sticks, which are used to beat and punish the Elephants, if they don&#8217;t do as they&#8217;re told. All Elephants you meet as a tourist are tamed and trained this way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Many Elephants get severe wounds from the bullhooks. But in most Asian countries it is illegal to put an animal down, even if it is suffering and in great pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Around the age of 3 years Elephants are taken from their mothers and are pacified and held in the same position without food for days. The Elephant&#8217;s future owner gains their trust by being the first one to feed them after days of starvation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can do something: <strong><em>Stop riding Elephants on your holidays!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-56853379-1', 'auto');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punished every day All &#8216;tame&#8217; Elephants are trained with bullhooks. Bullhooks are hooks attached to long sticks, which are used to beat and punish the Elephants, if they don&#8217;t do as they&#8217;re told. All Elephants you meet as a tourist are tamed and trained this way. Many Elephants get severe wounds from the bullhooks. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wildlife-of-our-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenisthenewblack.dk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}