{"id":2408,"date":"2023-01-23T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2023-11-07T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:40:28","slug":"apologize-to-the-rhinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/apologize-to-the-rhinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologize to the Rhinos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I was a child, one of my fondest memories was going to the North Carolina Zoo. I had an obsession with Rhinos and wanted to see them in person. I was obsessed because, for some reason, I took their near extinction by human hands very personally. Like it was my or my family&#8217;s fault somehow. So I wanted to go and apologize to them in person. I spent the entire day begging my family to take us there so I could apologize to them. They pretended to understand. Eventually, we got there, and I was mesmerized. At that moment, I was taken out of the zoo and into the wild, where I could see them in their natural habitat. Of course, I knew this was a zoo and an enclosure made to resemble the wild, but in my mind, at that moment, it was nature. I gave them a heartfelt apology on behalf of the human race and then went about my day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/White_rhino_Livingstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/White_rhino_Livingstone.jpg 704w, https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/White_rhino_Livingstone-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White rhino Livingstone<br>by\u00a0Hans Hillewaert <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-SA 4.0\u00a0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/185221__tedmasterweb__crowds-in-street-in-seville.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Crowds in Street in Seville <br>by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/tedmasterweb\" target=\"_blank\">tedmasterweb<\/a> \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 4.0\u00a0<\/a>license<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was drawn to this image because I wanted rhinos in the wild without humans nearby to simulate what I felt. For the audio, I liked the sound of crowds because visually, I felt like I was in the wild, but you cannot escape the sounds of the crowded zoo surrounding you. To simulate the experience that I felt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child, one of my fondest memories was going to the North Carolina Zoo. I had an obsession with Rhinos and wanted to see them in person. I was obsessed because, for some reason, I took their&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023","category-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}