{"id":53099,"date":"2023-11-22T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=53099"},"modified":"2023-11-22T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:24:03","slug":"hippo-crushes-to-death-ranger-who-dedicated-his-life-to-protecting-the-animals-from-poachers-in-south-africa-colleagues-are-forced-to-kill-the-animal-in-doomed-bid-to-save-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/22\/hippo-crushes-to-death-ranger-who-dedicated-his-life-to-protecting-the-animals-from-poachers-in-south-africa-colleagues-are-forced-to-kill-the-animal-in-doomed-bid-to-save-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippo crushes to death ranger who dedicated his life to protecting the animals from poachers in South Africa: Colleagues are forced to kill the animal in doomed bid to save him"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52790\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hippopo-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hippopo-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hippopo-770x513.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hippopo-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hippopo-360x240.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hippopo.jpeg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A brave bush ranger was crushed to death in the jaws of a rampaging hippo, after it ambushed a dawn patrol along a riverbank in a nature reserve in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-3984f3b0-891f-11ee-8d5b-1ddced4cffc6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/south_africa\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa<\/a><\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12779007\/Hippo-crushes-death-ranger-dedicated-life-protecting-animals-poachers-South-Africa-Colleagues-forced-kill-animal-doomed-bid-save-him.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A brave bush ranger was crushed to death in the jaws of a rampaging hippo, after it ambushed a dawn patrol along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Hippo.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53100,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53099\/revisions\/53100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}