{"id":5017,"date":"2013-01-12T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:39:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:39:48","slug":"a-message-from-mail-the-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/a-message-from-mail-the-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"A message from Mali the elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My human name is Mali<br \/>\nand an elephant am I<br \/>\nfor 35 years<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been in the Manila Zoo<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll die<br \/>\nhere now I reckon<br \/>\ncaptivity oh! God<br \/>\ngive me a small forest<br \/>\nand some mud<br \/>\nand more wet sod<br \/>\njust give me<br \/>\nmy freedom<br \/>\njust for a year or 2<br \/>\nManila Zoo is awful<br \/>\nso cramped, what I do<br \/>\nis stomp about<br \/>\non concrete<br \/>\nmy feet<br \/>\nare oh! so sore<br \/>\nlife is really mental<br \/>\nsuch a blooming bore<br \/>\nthe Philippines<br \/>\nare not my home<br \/>\nI really really fear<br \/>\nplease sign this petition<br \/>\nand get me out of here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali the elephant couldn&#8217;t pack her trunk  she is in a zoo in Manila <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/a-message-from-mail-the-elephant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}