{"id":18571,"date":"2020-05-22T20:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/cher-sheds-tears-of-joy-as-pakistans-loneliest-elephant-wins-freedom"},"modified":"2020-05-22T20:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:20:33","slug":"cher-sheds-tears-of-joy-as-pakistans-loneliest-elephant-wins-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18571","title":{"rendered":"Cher sheds tears of joy as Pakistan&#8217;s loneliest elephant wins freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaavan, a 33-year-old elephant living a sorry existence in Islamabad zoo, to be released after campaign by pop icon<\/p>\n<p>The plight of an animal known as Pakistan\u2019s loneliest elephant is set to come to an end after a court declared he should be freed from Islamabad zoo \u2013 to the delight of his longtime champion, pop icon Cher.<\/p>\n<p>Kaavan, a 33-year-old Asian elephant from Sri Lanka, has been the focus of a four-year campaign by Cher to secure his release from Murghazar Zoo in Pakistan\u2019s capital, after the singer saw pictures of the elephant living alone and held miserably in chains in a small enclosure, with only a small dirty pond to play in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/cher-sheds-tears-of-joy-as-pakistans-loneliest-elephant-wins-freedom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaavan, a 33-year-old elephant living a sorry existence in Islamabad zoo, to be released after campaign by pop iconThe plight of an animal known as Pakistan\u2019s loneliest elephant is set to come to an end after a court declared he should be freed from Is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586,265,1425,60,61,42,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-cher","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","category-zoos"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18573,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions\/18573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}