{"id":12931,"date":"2023-09-18T19:47:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12931"},"modified":"2023-10-11T19:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:50:24","slug":"free-rhinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/09\/18\/free-rhinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Rhinos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/18\/climate\/rhino-herd-sold-south-africa.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/18\/climate\/rhino-herd-sold-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Now Available: 2,000 Rhinos, Free to Good Homes With Plenty of Space<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/rachel-nuwer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rachel Nuwer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Now-Available-2000-Rhinos-Free-to-Good-Homes-With-Plenty-750x375.jpg\" alt=\"Now Available: 2,000 Rhinos, Free to Good Homes With Plenty of Space\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A herd of 2,000 rhinoceroses urgently in need of a new owner has finally found one: The rhinos and the farm where they live in South Africa have been purchased by a conservation group that plans to release the animals into the wild over the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The southern white rhinos, thought to be the largest single population of their kind, were put up for auction in April with a starting price of $10 million. No bidders came forward. At that point, the future of the animals appeared precarious. But the conservation group African Parks announced this month that it had reached a deal to take over the herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/18\/climate\/rhino-herd-sold-south-africa.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/18\/climate\/rhino-herd-sold-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Now Available: 2,000 Rhinos, Free to Good Homes With Plenty of Space By\u00a0Rachel Nuwer A herd of 2,000 rhinoceroses urgently in need of a new owner has finally found one: The rhinos and the farm where they live in South Africa have been purchased by a conservation group that plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}