{"id":9231,"date":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"fumble-in-the-jungle-new-yorkers-bid-for-elephant-polo-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/fumble-in-the-jungle-new-yorkers-bid-for-elephant-polo-glory.html","title":{"rendered":"Fumble in the jungle: New Yorkers bid for elephant polo glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP &#8211; They are the world&#8217;s unlikeliest contenders heading to Nepal for the world&#8217;s unlikeliest sport. Meet the New York Blue, America&#8217;s elephant polo team. <\/p>\n<p>Now elephants are hard to come by in New York. Large motor vehicles are not.<\/p>\n<p>So before flying this week to the World Elephant Polo tournament, the New York Blue&#8217;s seven adventurers practiced swinging at small white balls from the roofs of two SUVs in an empty beachside car park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jj3g0L9AZqLgS5MKmbrNJlyY5UOA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP &#8211; They are the world&#8217;s unlikeliest contenders heading to Nepal for the world&#8217;s unlikeliest sport. Meet the New York Blue, America&#8217;s elephant polo team. Now elephants are hard to come by in New York. Large motor vehicles are not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3915,3914],"class_list":["post-9231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bedrock","tag-public-eye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}