{"id":266,"date":"2009-09-14T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2009\/09\/14\/amsterdams_elephants\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:40:41","slug":"amsterdams_elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2009\/09\/14\/amsterdams_elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam&#8217;s elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if Joanna can <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/joannascott\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/san-francisco-zoo\">post gratuitous pictures of furry animals<\/a> then so can I.  Though mine are <em>funny animals<\/em> rather than <em>furry animals<\/em>.  Last year I showed some of Liverpool&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/franknorman\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/superlambananas\">superlambananas<\/a> ; this year I show you a parade of Amsterdam&#8217;s elephants.<br \/>\nThey are colourful elephant replicas with arty designs and patterns painted on, all in the cause of drawing attention to the Asian elephant and raising money for an elephant charity. The idea has already been in Rotterdam and Antwerp but the <a href=\"http:\/\/goamsterdam.about.com\/b\/2009\/08\/26\/elephants-will-soon-parade-in-amsterdam.htm\">Amsterdam version<\/a>, with 100 elephants, is the largest yet.  It will run until 31st October.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs241.snc1\/8816_133074086369_548781369_2973629_2370051_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"604\" \/><br \/>\n<em>This one looks a bit Australian to me<\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs261.snc1\/8816_133074056369_548781369_2973625_4473650_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"425\" \/><br \/>\n<em>In the style of Matisse, perhaps?<\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs261.snc1\/8816_133074071369_548781369_2973627_6767067_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"504\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs241.snc1\/8816_133074031369_548781369_2973620_8101201_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"604\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs261.snc1\/8816_133074066369_548781369_2973626_6328528_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"464\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ah, a bit of Delft-ware<\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs261.snc1\/8816_133074096369_548781369_2973630_1050155_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"457\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs241.snc1\/8816_133074046369_548781369_2973623_647954_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"540\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs241.snc1\/8816_133074156369_548781369_2973640_460476_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"568\" \/><br \/>\n<em>This one has a polar bear on top of it.<\/em><br \/>\nAnd here are a couple of photos of a real-live bird, posing beautifully in Amsterdam&#8217;s Vondelpark:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs241.snc1\/8816_133074041369_548781369_2973622_1321565_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"565\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs261.snc1\/8816_133074051369_548781369_2973624_4047891_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"604\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if Joanna can post gratuitous pictures of furry animals then so can I. Though mine are funny animals rather than furry animals. Last year I showed some of Liverpool&#8217;s superlambananas ; this year I show you a parade of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2009\/09\/14\/amsterdams_elephants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-froth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}