{"id":90257,"date":"2019-04-26T03:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T01:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/26\/gorilla-selfie-congolese-ranger-tells-how-he-snapped-viral-photo\/"},"modified":"2019-04-26T03:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T01:07:36","slug":"gorilla-selfie-congolese-ranger-tells-how-he-snapped-viral-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=90257","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Gorilla selfie&#039;: Congolese ranger tells how he snapped viral photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathieu Shamavu\u2019s photo captured two female orphaned gorillas at a national park in the Congo copying his movements Two gorillas stand behind a park ranger, one at a side angle, with her shoulders back, head up, apparently posing. The other seems to be peering around the back of the human to make sure she\u2019s in shot.The photograph \u2013 or gorilla selfie, as it has been dubbed \u2013 went viral after it was shared by Mathieu Shamavu, a ranger at Virunga national park in eastern Congo, who captured the shot. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/26\/gorilla-selfie-congolese-ranger-tells-how-he-snapped-viral-photo\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Gorilla selfie&#039;: Congolese ranger tells how he snapped viral photo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathieu Shamavu\u2019s photo captured two female orphaned gorillas at a national park in the Congo copying his movements Two gorillas stand behind a park ranger, one at a side angle, with her shoulders back, head up, apparently posing. The other seems to be peering around the back of the human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}