{"id":49709,"date":"2022-10-28T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/28\/thailand-shopping-mall-gorilla-fight-to-release-bua-noi"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:01:43","slug":"dying-of-boredom-the-fight-to-release-thailands-shopping-mall-gorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49709","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dying of boredom\u2019: the fight to release Thailand\u2019s shopping mall gorilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bua Noi has spent decades in a cage in a decaying Bangkok shopping mall. Her owner says is she too old to be transferred to a sanctuary but activists disagree<\/p>\n<p>Holding a fist full of green beans, Bua Noi stares through the iron bars and glass of her home at the visitors busy taking pictures of Bangkok\u2019s controversial \u201cshopping mall gorilla\u201d. To their dismay, the animal fondly known as King Kong soon saunters away from the viewing window, past the hanging tyre to the back of her sparse enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s sitting there dying of boredom,\u201d says Edwin Wiek, founder of Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/28\/thailand-shopping-mall-gorilla-fight-to-release-bua-noi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bua Noi has spent decades in a cage in a decaying Bangkok shopping mall. Her owner says is she too old to be transferred to a sanctuary but activists disagreeHolding a fist full of green beans, Bua Noi stares through the iron bars and glass of her home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"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":[265,41,93,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-zoos"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49709","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\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49710,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49709\/revisions\/49710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}