{"id":359,"date":"2000-12-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/29\/2000-12-29-a-look-at-the-year-s-weirdest-news\/"},"modified":"2000-12-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-12-29T12:00:00","slug":"2000-12-29-a-look-at-the-year-s-weirdest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/29\/2000-12-29-a-look-at-the-year-s-weirdest-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look At the Year&#8217;s Weirdest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A44676-2000Dec23.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C., December 24, 2000: The Washington Post has put together a list of the weirdest wackiest news this year, from all over the world. Two stood out to HPI. First is this one: Art patrons bought up Christie&#8217;s entire collection of 60 paintings created by artists that also happen to be elephants, including works by Sao (a former log hauler in Thailand&#8217;s timber industry), whose style was likened by Yale art historian Mia Fineman to the work of Paul Gauguin for its &#8220;broad, gentle, curvy brush strokes&#8221; and &#8220;a depth and maturity that remains unrivaled in the elephant art world.&#8221; Fineman says there are three distinct regional styles of Thai elephant art: northern (&#8220;lyrical and expressive&#8221;), central (&#8220;dark, cooler&#8221; colors in &#8220;broad, vigorous strokes&#8221;) and southern (&#8220;saturated tertiary colors&#8221;). The second item of &#8220;weird news&#8221; was this one: Astrologer Jacqueline Stallone (mother of actor Sly) said in a published pre-Election Day interview that her dogs &#8212; a pair of miniature pinschers &#8212; had told her telepathically that George W. Bush would win the presidency by 200 votes &#8212; a fairly amazing prediction close to the actual vote in Florida by which Mr. Bush won.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON, D.C., December 24, 2000: The Washington Post has put together a list of the weirdest wackiest,&#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-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}