{"id":1271,"date":"2012-12-18T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/18\/vodka-helps-stranded-elephants-survive-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:09:46","slug":"vodka-helps-stranded-elephants-survive-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/vodka-helps-stranded-elephants-survive-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodka helps stranded elephants survive in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Two circus elephants drank vodka to help them survive when their trailer caught fire in freezing Siberia, RIA news agency said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A quick-thinking handler resorted to the traditional Russian cure for all ills by buying two cases of vodka from a nearby village, diluting it with warm water and serving it to Indian elephants Jenny and Magda, it said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He had become desperate after realizing that making them run round the broken truck was not enough to prevent them freezing to death before a new trailer arrived to complete their journey. RIA quoted a local official as saying the vodka had helped them survive. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;After that they roared as if they were in the jungle! Apparently they were happy,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jenny and Magda, touring the region with a Polish circus, were then taken to a local school gym with little more than frostbite on their ears and trunks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They reached their final destination in the Siberian city of Omsk on Friday and began rehearsing for circus performances over Christmas and the New Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two circus elephants drank vodka to help them survive when their trailer caught fire in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[1515,1513,68,1516,1514,1085,1512],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-elephants","tag-helps","tag-in","tag-russia","tag-stranded","tag-survive","tag-vodka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}