{"id":4073,"date":"2009-10-09T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2009-10-09T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T05:25:00","slug":"a-donkey-with-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/a-donkey-with-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Donkey With Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/fake-zebra.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20091008\/od_nm\/us_gaza_zebras\" title=\"Donkeys get dye-job, take on zebra role\">Reuters has a story<\/a> on how a zoo in Gaza painted black stripes on a couple of white donkeys and passed them off as zebras. The kids who came to the zoo were reportedly delighted. The other donkeys no doubt went WTF.<\/p>\n<p>And the thought that struck me as I read this news: What a delightful metaphor for media hype.<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<p>(Picture courtesy Reuters.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters has a story on how a zoo in Gaza painted black stripes on a couple of white donkeys and passed them off as zebras. The kids who came to the zoo were reportedly delighted. The other donkeys no doubt went WTF.<\/p>\n<p>And the thought that struck me as I read this news: What a delightful metaphor for media hype.<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,14,15,23,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Donkey With Stripes - 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\/a-donkey-with-stripes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Donkey With Stripes - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reuters has a story on how a zoo in Gaza painted black stripes on a couple of white donkeys and passed them off as zebras. 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