{"id":31,"date":"2009-08-13T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debramugnani.wordpress.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2017-10-18T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:00:13","slug":"singing-for-the-elephants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Singing for the elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/?attachment_id=29'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/img_0290-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29'>\n\t\t\t\tA family with their sleeping four month old\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/?attachment_id=30'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/img_0346-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/?attachment_id=32'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/img_02831-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This July, I stayed at the Chiang Mai Elephant Nature Park (www.elephantnaturepark.org) in Thailand with a group of women from the Threshold Choir (thresholdchoir.org). We sang to elephants, which are amazingly sensitive animals and they seemed to appreciate it. I had the opportunity to play with a little elephant calf and like a cat, he loved being scratched under his chin so much that he fell asleep leaning right up against my cheek. Moments like that one make life extraordinary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sang to these amazingly sensitive animals and they seemed to appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}