{"id":24559,"date":"2019-04-07T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T20:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24559"},"modified":"2019-04-07T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T20:12:21","slug":"the-aging-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/04\/07\/the-aging-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aging Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all elephants end up poached. Wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas has a blog post up concerning the last days of an elderly queen elephant, and they are very impressive. Rather than poaching those photos themselves, I&#8217;ll just recommend you <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.burrard-lucas.com\/2019\/03\/elephant-queen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It may be sad that the queen has passed on since those photos were taken, but I&#8217;d prefer to think of it as the passing of a successful queen elephant, and as such a thing to be considered, oh, <em>satisfying<\/em>. There&#8217;s not really a word for the emotion in question.<\/p>\n<p>As you view the photos, notice the signs of age, and think of how little we see such signs in wildlife photography. I found it moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all elephants end up poached. Wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas has a blog post up concerning the last days of an elderly queen elephant, and they are very impressive. Rather than poaching those photos themselves, I&#8217;ll just recommend you visit his blog. It may be sad that the queen has \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/04\/07\/the-aging-queen\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24561,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24559\/revisions\/24561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}