{"id":60096,"date":"2016-03-21T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T07:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=60096"},"modified":"2016-03-21T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T07:09:26","slug":"larger-than-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/60096","title":{"rendered":"larger than life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI just ran across this photo of one of the largest bulls in the world:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60098\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60098\" class=\"wp-image-60098\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bull.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"444\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chilli, dailymail.co.uk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chilli is a Friesian bull who lives at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Somerset, England. He weighs more than a ton and is over 6 feet tall (the same height as a small elephant!).<\/p>\n<p>A few other giants of the animal world:<\/p>\n<p>Hercules, the largest cat in the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60097\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60097\" class=\"wp-image-60097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/lion-tiger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"229\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hercules, via guinnessworldrecords.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hercules weighs over 900 pounds, is nearly 11 feet long and a little over 4 feet tall (to compare, about 1 1\/2 feet taller than the average desk).<\/p>\n<p>Or how about Zeus, &#8220;the tallest dog ever&#8221; at 44 inches\u00a0(just for reference, a standard\u00a0kitchen counter is 36 inches\u00a0tall, so I&#8217;m guessing Zeus&#8217; owners never leave things on the counter).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60301\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60301\" class=\"wp-image-60301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zeus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"229\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo, guinnessworldrecords.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then, there&#8217;s\u00a0Romulus, the tallest donkey in the world, at 5 feet, 8 inches at the withers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60302\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60302\" class=\"wp-image-60302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/donkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"229\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo, guinnessworldrecords.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Compared to KneeHi, the shortest donkey on record at just over 25 inches, Romulus is a true giant.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60303\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60303\" class=\"wp-image-60303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/little-donkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"229\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo, guinnessworldrecords.com<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across this photo of one of the largest bulls in the world: Chilli is a Friesian bull who lives at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Somerset, England. He weighs more than a ton and is over 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/60096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/60096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}