{"id":2633,"date":"2024-12-24T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T11:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/24\/elephant-day\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T11:13:12","slug":"elephant-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/24\/elephant-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was a ton of fun, literally a ton.  After a 30 minute drive into the mountains, we jumped into our elephant wrangler gear (unflattering blue jeans and a wild vest; they want us to look like people the elephants are familiar with) and headed into the hills.  We hiked about 1\/2 mile through a rubber tree grove and into a clearing where we were met by 3 full gown elephants.  Our morning was spent, feeding the elephants sugar cane, some elephant vitamins, and giving them a bath.  Once done, we had lunch with the elephants.  It was an amazing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5637-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2622\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5637-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5637-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5637-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5637-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5637.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elephant Habitat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5642-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5642-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5642-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5642-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5642-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5642.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rubber Tree Grove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5669-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5669-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5669-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5669-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5669.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Up close and personal <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5666-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2629\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5666-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5666-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5666-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5666-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5666.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0234-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2631\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0234-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0234-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0234-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0234-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0234.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Not the best angle, but you get the point.  We hiked about 1\/4 mile with the elephants to their base camp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5733-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2621\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5733-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5733-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5733-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5733-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5733.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5715-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5715-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5715-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5715-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5715.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bath time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5730-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2623\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5730-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5730-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5730-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5730-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5730.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lunch time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5757-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2628\" srcset=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5757-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5757-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5757-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_5757.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">With a side trip \/ hike to a mountain waterfall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a ton of fun, literally a ton. After a 30 minute drive into the mountains, we jumped into our elephant wrangler gear (unflattering blue jeans and a wild vest; they want us to look like people the elephants are familiar with) and headed into the hills. We hiked about 1\/2 mile through a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/24\/elephant-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elephant Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,17,72,8],"tags":[67,78,48],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-family","category-thailand","category-travel","tag-christmas","tag-thailand","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jlNd-Gt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/personal.rmprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}