{"id":231,"date":"2004-08-17T13:19:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=231"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"dumbos_not_so_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/dumbos_not_so_c\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbo&#8217;s not so cute anymore&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/16\/india.elephants.reut\/index.html>CNN&#8217;s World report<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>AGARTALA, India (Reuters) &#8212; Authorities in northeast India have urged Bangladesh not to kill about 100 wild elephants that have strayed across the border and gone on a rampage, killing 13 people and injuring dozens more.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;We are very sympathetic about the elephants&#8217; plight and we will not take any steps to kill them,&#8221; Munshi Anwarul Islam, Chief Forest Conservator of Bangladesh, told Reuters.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;But these elephants are destroying our houses and trees and are a threat to the local people. They are not finding a corridor to go back to India.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Funny how the wild elephants get far more consideration from CNN\/Reuters than the 13 &#8220;villagers&#8221; they killed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN&#8217;s World report &#8211; AGARTALA, India (Reuters) &#8212; Authorities in northeast India have urged Bangladesh not to kill about 100 wild elephants that have strayed across the border and gone on a rampage, killing 13 people and injuring dozens &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/dumbos_not_so_c\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}