{"id":34131,"date":"2021-07-17T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/the-lion-in-the-london-black-cab-the-remarkable-story-of-singh-and-the-boy-who-loved-him"},"modified":"2021-07-17T05:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:00:41","slug":"the-lion-in-the-london-black-cab-the-remarkable-story-of-singh-and-the-boy-who-loved-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34131","title":{"rendered":"The lion in the London black cab: the remarkable story of Singh, and the boy who loved him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gifted as a cub by a Maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. Now his story has been made into a book<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was,\u201d London Zoo said, \u201cone of the zoo\u2019s politest pets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Singh the Lion arrived in a black cab and padded in through the front door, on a lead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/the-lion-in-the-london-black-cab-the-remarkable-story-of-singh-and-the-boy-who-loved-him\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gifted as a cub by a Maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. Now his story has been made into a book\u201cHe was,\u201d London Zoo said, \u201cone of the zoo\u2019s politest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[265,43,511,71,62,831,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-australia-news","category-books","category-culture","category-india","category-mahatma-gandhi","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34131","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34132,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34131\/revisions\/34132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}