{"id":887,"date":"2008-09-14T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T19:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2008-09-14T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T19:24:24","slug":"887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/887\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/deathofJumbopainting.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/deathofJumbopainting.gif\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a>September 15 marks the 125th anniversary of Jumbo&#8217;s death in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Jumbo was an international superstar whose rags-to-riches story was written by two larger than life characters: Matthew Scott, his trainer, and Phineas Taylor Barnum, the impresario. Neither Scott nor PT Barnum could have predicted how Jumbo&#8217;s life ended abruptly late that night. But as in a Hollywood tear-jerker each man reacted differently to loss and the contrast was dramatic: a tragedy for one and an opportunity for the other. But for Jumbo it was a premature death far from where his tragic life began in Northeast Africa in 1861.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her series, &#8220;Elephants We Must Never Forget: New paintings, drawings and prints&#8221; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gseart.com\/index.html\">Galerie St. Etienne<\/a> in Manhattan, Sue Coe depicts the fatal moment when Jumbo was hit by a freight train. Sue Coe and Kim Stallwood will be speaking at the show&#8217;s opening at the Galerie St. Etienne on Tuesday, October 14. More of Sue&#8217;s art can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicwitness.org\/coe\/paint.htm\">Graphic Witness<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 15 marks the 125th anniversary of Jumbo&#8217;s death in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Jumbo was an international superstar whose rags-to-riches story was written by two larger than life characters: Matthew Scott, his trainer, and Phineas Taylor Barnum, the impresario. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/887\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-animals-in-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}