{"id":4001,"date":"2010-01-14T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2010-01-14T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T11:19:00","slug":"it-must-be-terribly-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/it-must-be-terribly-lonely\/","title":{"rendered":"It Must Be Terribly Lonely\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE60C4W020100113\" title=\"Country's only hippo escapes zoo during floods\">the only hippo in Montenegro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not as bad as it must be for <a href=\"\/that-was-easy\/\" title=\"That Was Easy\">the only pig in Afghanistan<\/a>, but still. <\/p>\n<p>And imagine being the only human in a country full of hippos. 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I can see you in a cage in a zoo, mournfully contemplating what might have been if humans were the dominant species, when the zookeeper hippo and his hippo girlfriend put on some music and start dancing outside your cage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What are you doing?&#8217; you ask.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s called the Hippo Hippo Shake.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/uploads\/images\/hippo.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"425\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Pic courtesy Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It Must Be Terribly Lonely\u2026 - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/it-must-be-terribly-lonely\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It Must Be Terribly Lonely\u2026 - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"... to be the only hippo in Montenegro. 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