{"id":35049,"date":"2023-06-07T04:55:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=35049"},"modified":"2023-06-07T04:55:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:55:44","slug":"elephant-with-a-prosthetic-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/06\/elephant-with-a-prosthetic-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant With A Prosthetic Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An 11-year-old elephant at a wildlife park in Cambodia lost part of his left leg years ago when he got caught in a poacher&#8217;s snare.\u00a0 But instead of putting him down, they&#8217;ve been making prosthetics for him ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He needs a new one every six months, and a charity in the U.K. covers the costs.\u00a0 His newest prosthetic leg weighs 44 pounds, and he gets around on it great.\u00a0 He can walk, run, and even swim in it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><i>(Here&#8217;s a\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cam-and-Chhouk-with-the-prosthetic-SWNS.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>photo<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Here is Cam Whitnall, who runs the Paradise Wildlife Park and Big Cat Sanctuary, on Chhouk&#8217;s 44-pound\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/elephant-fitted-with-a-prosthetic-foot-so-hes-able-to-walk-again-look\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>prosthetic foot<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":32936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 17:48:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/06\/elephant-with-a-prosthetic-leg\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35050,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35049\/revisions\/35050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}