{"id":25211,"date":"2020-11-29T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T11:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/29\/worlds-loneliest-elephant-kaavan-heads-to-cambodia-after-cher-campaign"},"modified":"2020-11-29T20:20:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T11:20:34","slug":"worlds-loneliest-elephant-heads-to-cambodia-after-cher-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25211","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;World&#8217;s loneliest elephant&#8217; heads to Cambodia after Cher campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaavan, an overweight 36-year-old elephant, to be rehomed after outcry at conditions<\/p>\n<p>After years of public outcry and campaigning by the US singer and actor Cher, the \u201cworld\u2019s loneliest elephant\u201d embarked on Sunday on a mammoth move from Pakistan to retirement in a Cambodian sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Cher has spent recent days at the Islamabad zoo to provide moral support to Kaavan \u2013 an overweight 36-year-old bull elephant \u2013 whose pitiful treatment at the dilapidated facility sparked an uproar from animal rights groups and a spirited social media campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/29\/worlds-loneliest-elephant-kaavan-heads-to-cambodia-after-cher-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaavan, an overweight 36-year-old elephant, to be rehomed after outcry at conditionsAfter years of public outcry and campaigning by the US singer and actor Cher, the \u201cworld\u2019s loneliest elephant\u201d embarked on Sunday on a mammoth move from Pakistan to ret&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[586,361,1425,456,60,42,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-cambodia","category-cher","category-conservation","category-pakistan","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\/25211","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25222,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25211\/revisions\/25222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}