{"id":2007,"date":"2016-02-23T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T03:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/23\/baby-elephant-just-wants-to-cuddle-all-day-long\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T03:39:23","slug":"baby-elephant-just-wants-to-cuddle-all-day-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/23\/baby-elephant-just-wants-to-cuddle-all-day-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby elephant just wants to cuddle all day long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A483f1ec2b094bfebf20623cf74500eb\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzIzLzViL2E0ODNmMWVjMmIwLjA4NGViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/ec8608e9\/c9c\/a483f1ec2b094bfebf20623cf74500eb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Baby+elephant+just+wants+to+cuddle+all+day+long&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F22%2Fbaby-elephant-just-wants-to-cuddle%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F22%2Fbaby-elephant-just-wants-to-cuddle%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Baby elephants are built for the jungle \u2014 and your hugs.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, initially published in October, a baby elephant reaches out for a hug. And while his worker, Alex, pleasantly complies, this elephant is persistent.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t want just one cuddle. He wants thousands.<\/p>\n<p>While humans would consider this kind of behavior &#8220;needy,&#8221; baby elephants are the exception to the rule. They&#8217;re just too adorable and too floppy for dated human boundaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dear baby elephant, let&#8217;s hang out.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/22\/baby-elephant-just-wants-to-cuddle\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/watercooler-viral-videos\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler Viral Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/cute-animals\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Cute Animals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/elephants\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Elephants<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/baby-animals\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Baby Animals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1456198634' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1456198634'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/gsJc3RmCGPc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby elephants are built for the jungle \u2014 and your hugs. In this video, initially published in October, a baby elephant reaches out for a hug. And while his worker, Alex, pleasantly complies, this elephant is persistent. He doesn&#8217;t want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/23\/baby-elephant-just-wants-to-cuddle-all-day-long\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}