{"id":32893,"date":"2021-06-08T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T05:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/08\/chinas-herd-of-wandering-elephants-takes-a-rest-after-500km-trek"},"modified":"2021-06-08T20:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:51:01","slug":"chinas-herd-of-wandering-elephants-takes-a-rest-after-500km-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32893","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s herd of wandering elephants takes a rest after 500km trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group of pachyderms that has been criss-crossing the countryside photographed lying down outside a village in Xiyang township<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s famous herd of wandering elephants has stopped for a rest after a 15-month journey far out of their natural habitat, an odyssey that has captivated the country.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have marshalled extraordinary resources to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/herd-of-escaped-elephants-leave-500km-trail-of-destruction-in-south-west-china\">monitor the herd and keep it away from residential areas<\/a>. According to Chinese media, the Yunnan forest fire brigade said a team of eight people were tracking the elephants, 24 hours a day, both on the ground and by drone from the air.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/08\/chinas-herd-of-wandering-elephants-takes-a-rest-after-500km-trek\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group of pachyderms that has been criss-crossing the countryside photographed lying down outside a village in Xiyang townshipChina\u2019s famous herd of wandering elephants has stopped for a rest after a 15-month journey far out of their natural habitat, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[265,41,50,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32893","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32899,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32893\/revisions\/32899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}