{"id":781,"date":"2008-06-15T22:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T22:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:40:49","slug":"lucy-the-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Lucy the Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy here is a National Monument. I guess I didn&#8217;t treat her with the proper respect because as I was paying the bridge toll into Margate, NJ I asked the attendant where the &#8220;big elephant&#8221; was. He looked at me with derision.\u00a0 I should have shown some more respect.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_782\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/No21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-782\" data-attachment-id=\"782\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=782\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/No21.jpg?fit=393%2C500\" data-orig-size=\"393,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lucy the Elephant\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;No21.jpg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Lucy the Elephant&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/No21.jpg?fit=145%2C184\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/No21.jpg?fit=393%2C500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-782\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/No21.jpg?resize=236%2C300\" alt=\"elephant\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/No21.jpg?resize=236%2C300 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/No21.jpg?resize=118%2C150 118w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/No21.jpg?w=393 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucy the Elephant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy here is a National Monument. I guess I didn&#8217;t treat her with the proper respect because as I was paying the bridge toll into Margate, NJ I asked the attendant where the &#8220;big elephant&#8221; was. He looked at me with derision.\u00a0 I should have shown some more respect. &nbsp; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=781\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-cB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}