{"id":495,"date":"2011-08-29T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2020-01-03T17:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:28:44","slug":"i-adopted-an-orphan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"I adopted an orphan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I last visited Nairobi, I was very impressed with the Sheldrick elephant orphanage.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I got to learn more about them by seeing an Imax film called: &#8220;Born to be wild&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.imax.com\/movies\/m\/born-to-be-wild-3d\/<\/p>\n<p>I had felt frustrated that our time with the elephants was so short on that first visit, but I have since found out that if you foster an orphan, you get to spend extra time with them&#8230; Guess who adopted an elephant???<\/p>\n<p>His name is Mumbushi, he is not even 4 months old yet, and had a nasty machete gash across his forehead but has been making great progress since his rescue 2 months ago. If you want to learn more about him check this out:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org\/asp\/orphan_profile.asp?N=246<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping to get to see him when I next visit the orphanage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I last visited Nairobi, I was very impressed with the Sheldrick elephant orphanage. Since then, I got to learn more about them by seeing an Imax film called: &#8220;Born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}