{"id":209,"date":"2000-11-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/07\/2000-11-07-thailand-elephants-form-band-release-first-tune\/"},"modified":"2000-11-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-07T12:00:00","slug":"2000-11-07-thailand-elephants-form-band-release-first-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/07\/2000-11-07-thailand-elephants-form-band-release-first-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Elephants Form Band, Release First Tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/entertainment\/newsid_1011000\/1011154.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>LAMPANG, THAILAND: An elephant sanctuary in Thailand has trained a group of five elephants to play percussion instruments, xylophones and an elephant-sized harmonica. They&#8217;ve released their first tune, &#8220;Chang, Chang, Chang,&#8221; which means &#8220;Elephant, Elephant, Elephant,&#8221; and is a child&#8217;s song in Thai. Each elephant holds an instrument and plays it when prodded by its mahut. The next song they are learning is &#8220;Happy Birthday to You.&#8221; This same center has trained elephants to paint, and the paintings have been sold with profits going to benefit the elephant programs.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE LAMPANG, THAILAND: An elephant sanctuary in Thailand has trained a group of five elephants to play percussion,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}