{"id":86,"date":"2010-03-01T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2011-10-02T04:22:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T04:22:05","slug":"elephant-saves-a-childs-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Saves a Child&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Published by The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on April 24, 1896.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Bessie Rooney, the 10-year-old sister of Michael Rooney, the bareback rider, was about to be hugged to death by a bear the other day at Tattersall&#8217;s circus in Chicago, when Babylon, one of Ringling Brothers&#8217; big elephants, knocked the brute down and saved the child&#8217;s life. The bear, who is known as &#8220;Growler,&#8221; has a vicious temper. He was chained near the elephants. The little girl is a friend of the elephants, and was romping with some of them when &#8220;Growler&#8221; seized her and closed his paws around her slender form. Babylon, who had been an interested spectator, brought his trunk down with crushing force on &#8220;Growler&#8217;s head. The bear was stunned by the blow and released the child, who had fainted. The elephant then picked her up and placed her where the bear could not reach her.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on April 24, 1896. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Bessie Rooney, the 10-year-old sister of Michael Rooney, the bareback rider, was about to be hugged to death by a bear the other day at Tattersall&#8217;s circus in Chicago, when Babylon, one of Ringling Brothers&#8217; big elephants, knocked the brute down and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}