{"id":4803,"date":"2013-08-29T11:50:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:52:36","slug":"chimp-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/29\/chimp-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimp The Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-23892289\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from BBC News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>US chimp Brent wins Humane Society art competition<\/h1>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Art work by Brent the chimpanzee\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/69553000\/jpg\/_69553244_4a0b4260-d0a1-43a6-844d-dc61c5fc98b3.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"350\" \/><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/center>A US chimpanzee who paints with his tongue has won a $10,000 (\u00a36,450) prize in a chimpanzee art competition.<\/p>\n<p>Brent, 37, created a delicate, vibrantly coloured work featuring daubs of violet, blue and yellow on paper.<\/p>\n<p>The entries were judged by noted primate researcher and conservationist, Jane Goodall.<\/p>\n<p>The prize in the contest, sponsored by the Humane Society of the US will benefit Chimp Haven, Brent&#8217;s sanctuary in the US state of Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Cheetah and Ripley won second and third prizes in the competition that garnered 27,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Brent is a retired laboratory animal, and the Humane Society says he is protective of an elder companion, named Grandma, and &#8220;loves to laugh and play&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-23892289\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at BBC News<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BBC News US chimp Brent wins Humane Society art competition A US chimpanzee who paints with his tongue has won a $10,000 (\u00a36,450) prize in a chimpanzee art competition. Brent, 37, created a delicate, vibrantly coloured work featuring daubs of violet, blue and yellow on paper. The entries were judged by noted primate researcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}