{"id":6728,"date":"2008-03-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/31\/elephants-skilled-trunks-and-giant-artistic-genius\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:00:00","slug":"elephants-skilled-trunks-and-giant-artistic-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/31\/elephants-skilled-trunks-and-giant-artistic-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants&#8217; Skilled Trunks and Giant Artistic Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.elephantartgallery.com\/\">www.elephantartgallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">THAILAND, March 31, 2008: Elephants at the National Elephant Institute, Thailand, can express their artistic genius more than anywhere else. There they get a blank canvas, paint, a brush and freedom to express themselves in surprising art. Many of the National Elephant Institute&#8217;s artists were rescued from mistreatment in captivity, and the proceedings help keep support the artists and their elephantine friends.<\/p>\n<p>You can click on the link above to see the painting, and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk\">here<\/a> for an unbelievable self-portrait.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.elephantartgallery.com THAILAND, March 31, 2008: Elephants at the National Elephant Institute, Thailand, can express their artistic genius more than anywhere,&#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-6728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728","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=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}