{"id":7808,"date":"2013-05-14T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-african-man-charges-elephant\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T05:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:50:57","slug":"south-african-man-charges-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-african-man-charges-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Man charges elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{A safari lodge company based in South Africa says a field guide who was filmed while charging on foot toward an elephant has been dismissed.}}<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after the online posting of a video that showed a man running at an elephant in a game reserve while his friends cheer and laugh. In the video, the elephant stands its ground, ears flapping, and then retreats.<\/p>\n<p>The Singita company posted a statement on its Facebook page Monday, saying it investigated the video and has dismissed the guide who ran at the elephant. <\/p>\n<p>It says disciplinary measures are &#8220;in progress&#8221; against others involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{A safari lodge company based in South Africa says a field guide who was filmed while charging on foot toward an elephant has been dismissed.}} The announcement came after the online posting of a video that showed a man running at an elephant in a game reserve while his friends cheer and laugh. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}