{"id":1642,"date":"2007-08-27T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/go-not-very-far-ape\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T01:11:00","slug":"go-not-very-far-ape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/go-not-very-far-ape","title":{"rendered":"Go (not very far) ape!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a story about an escaped orangutan at the Atlanta Zoo<\/a>. There are several odd aspects to this one. Which one do you think is the strangest:<\/p>\n

a) That thee orangutan just wandered around about a 100 feet from his cage for half an hour, before being tranked and taken back to his pen,<\/p>\n

b) that zoo officials think may have used “some sort of equipment” to get past the moats,<\/p>\n

c) that they declared a “code brown” situation?<\/p>\n

Yuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a story about an escaped orangutan at the Atlanta Zoo. There are several odd aspects to this one. Which one do you think is the strangest: a) That thee orangutan just wandered around about a 100 feet from his cage for half an hour, before being tranked and taken back to his pen, b) … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Go (not very far) ape!”<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-qu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1520,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/prime-mate","url_meta":{"origin":1642,"position":0},"title":"Prime, mate!","author":"Gil","date":"May 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Official VM Australian correspondent Tina B. sends this post about an orangutan who went, um, apeshit at a zoo in Taiwan. 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