{"id":1300,"date":"2003-01-25T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-25T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2003-01-25T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-25T20:29:00","slug":"when-good-elephants-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/01\/25\/16\/29\/when-good-elephants-go-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"When Good Elephants Go Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_742619.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Webstore\/Angry%20elephant%20kills%20its%20keeper%20in%20southern%20India\/ElephantKillerBig.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nSo apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/DEL179317\">Ganesh devotees<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Angry%20elephant%20kills%20its%20keeper%20in%20southern%20India\/Indian%20temple%20finds%20elephant%20gifts%20a%20heavy%20burden.html\"> keep dumping elephants<\/a> as votive offerings at the door of this temple in India, which has already tried to ban the practice but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/DEL179317\">lost a court battle<\/a>. So now the city is overrun with nervous, pissed-off, and sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange-today.co.uk\/news\/story\/sm_742619.html\">homicidal elephants<\/a>. The solution? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keralanext.com\/news\/index.asp?id=6439\">ban on elephants<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Angry%20elephant%20kills%20its%20keeper%20in%20southern%20India\/Cochin%20corpn%20seeks%20ban%20on%20elephants%20during%20peak%20hours.html\"> during rush hour<\/a>. Yeah, that&#8217;ll work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently Ganesh devotees keep dumping elephants as votive offerings at the door of this temple in India, which has already tried to ban the practice but lost a court battle. So now the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}