{"id":837,"date":"2012-11-05T23:04:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2012-11-05T23:04:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:04:58","slug":"send-the-speaking-elephant-on-a-world-speaking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/11\/send-the-speaking-elephant-on-a-world-speaking-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Send the Speaking Elephant on a World Speaking Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some elephant in Korea can speak Korean with a vocabulary of five words.<br \/>\nThere is a career open for this elephant on the after dinner circuit.<br \/>\nGiven how hard jobs are to find at the moment, I think the elephant should leap at the chance to earn a bit more than the rental on a wooden shack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some elephant in Korea can speak Korean with a vocabulary of five words. There is a career open for this elephant on the after dinner circuit. Given how hard jobs are to find at the moment, I think the elephant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/11\/send-the-speaking-elephant-on-a-world-speaking-tour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-dv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1820,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/03\/foetuses-burned-to-heat-hospitals-in-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":837,"position":0},"title":"Foetuses Burned to Heat Hospitals in Uk","author":"taxicle","date":"March 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Speaking as someone who one day expects to be turned into catfood, I think this is a good use of a dead foetus. 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