{"id":5540,"date":"2015-10-11T03:46:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T03:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyonhealth.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/florida-circus-elephants-find-second-career-in-research\/"},"modified":"2015-10-11T03:46:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T03:46:02","slug":"florida-circus-elephants-find-second-career-in-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/11\/florida-circus-elephants-find-second-career-in-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida circus elephants find second career in research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/florida-circus-elephants-second-career-research-000727458.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-11T000727Z_1_LYNXNPEB9A001_RTROPTP_2_USA-FLORIDA-ELEPHANTS.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"Trainer Jim Williams walks Asian elephants at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation in Polk City\" align=\"left\" title=\"Trainer Jim Williams walks Asian elephants at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation in Polk City\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>At a Florida retirement home for former circus elephants, residents enjoy a steady diet of high-quality hay and local fruits and vegetables, as well as baths and occasional walks. For these majestic beasts, this life of relative leisure at the 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation comes after years on the road, entertaining America in &#8220;The Greatest Show on Earth&#8221;\u00a0for Ringling Bros and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus. In March, the circus company announced with some reluctance that it would end its elephant acts by 2018.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Florida retirement home for former circus elephants, residents enjoy a steady diet of high-quality hay and local fruits and vegetables, as well as baths and occasional walks. For these majestic beasts, this life of relative leisure at the 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation comes after years on the road, entertaining America in &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-5540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-11T000727Z_1_LYNXNPEB9A001_RTROPTP_2_USA-FLORIDA-ELEPHANTS.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}