{"id":421,"date":"2018-03-16T07:28:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T07:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2018-03-16T07:28:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T07:28:35","slug":"animals-in-captivity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/animals-in-captivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals In Captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times of India news Tuesday March 13, 2018 page 6 announces Desert Safari in the heart of Delhi city zoo a concrete jungle in 5 acres area under master plan 2031.<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s a heart breaking news of keeping and forcing animals and birds in captivity where millions will be spent to keep the following:<\/p>\n<p>Blackbuck, nilgai, hog deer, palm civet, desert cat, porcupine, hare, python, sand boa, rat snake, peacock, quail, red jungle fowl etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s controversial and something to debate about, a very cruel scheme of things indeed.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know who plans all this and why.<br \/>\nFreedom of animals, birds, insects, fish is as important as that of all human beings, and I am sure you will all agree.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 I had gone to see or understand about a similar Safari somewhere near Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, and was not very happy at the condition of animals in the scorching summer sun.<br \/>\nZoo, cage, or aquariums for fish or turtles, I don&#8217;t think these are very good ideas in the long run, and they should be best avoided, or dismantled in a slow phased manner, so that the animals, birds, or fish are able to adapt to their new found freedom, and they do not die in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times of India news Tuesday March 13, 2018 page 6 announces Desert Safari in the heart of Delhi city zoo a concrete jungle in 5 acres area under master plan 2031. I think it&#8217;s a heart breaking news of keeping and forcing animals and birds in captivity where millions will be spent to keep the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/animals-in-captivity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Animals In Captivity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/the-final-episode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}