{"id":340,"date":"2023-05-22T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T04:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T03:22:55","slug":"the-elephant-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"The Japan Times &#8211; In Nagano, an excavation of Japan&#8217;s ancient elephant looks to rewrite history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/B76BFC93-2F68-4A14-9651-F19B18FFFCFF-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/B76BFC93-2F68-4A14-9651-F19B18FFFCFF-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/B76BFC93-2F68-4A14-9651-F19B18FFFCFF-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/B76BFC93-2F68-4A14-9651-F19B18FFFCFF-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/B76BFC93-2F68-4A14-9651-F19B18FFFCFF-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/B76BFC93-2F68-4A14-9651-F19B18FFFCFF-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the close of my second Japanese winter, I managed to get a piece about elephants in The Japan Times.  It was the first ever story of mine to appear on the front page of anything, let alone a national newspaper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TheElephantHunters.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of TheElephantHunters.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6980ba71-3d22-40a3-b7b4-583f8beb428d\" href=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TheElephantHunters.pdf\">TheElephantHunters<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TheElephantHunters.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6980ba71-3d22-40a3-b7b4-583f8beb428d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the close of my second Japanese winter, I managed to get a piece about elephants in The Japan Times. It was the first ever story of mine to appear on the front page of anything, let alone a national newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-published-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}