{"id":36477,"date":"2019-04-07T01:20:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36477"},"modified":"2019-04-07T01:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:20:38","slug":"theres-fate-and-then-you-have-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36477","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s fate . . . and then you have this!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=wildlifepoaching%20%23shootonsight%20%23SouthAfrica&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BBVGFBq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36478\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BBVGFBq-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BBVGFBq-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BBVGFBq-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BBVGFBq.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe I have just read what could be the most dramatic demonstration karma imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill newspaper reports the following:<\/p>\n<p>South African wildlife authorities say they have recovered the remains of a man suspected of poaching rhinoceroses, one of Africa&#8217;s most endangered great beasts.<\/p>\n<p>But get a load of this . . . they believe the guy was killed by an <em>elephant<\/em> and his corpse was devoured by a <em>pride of lions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/suspected-rhino-poacher-killed-by-elephant-then-eaten-by-lions-in-south-africa-authorities-say\/ar-BBVGBcT?ocid=spartandhp\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be brutally candid, I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m supposed to react to this kind of story. I have heard about how some African governments have issued shoot-on-sight orders to park personnel who witness individuals killing wildlife illegally. Given that I am a devoted wild animal lover, I have cheered those reports.<\/p>\n<p>Should I feel badly for this guy&#8217;s family? I suppose so. Park officials have offered their condolences, which is appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>This development, if it turns out to be true, would buttress the old commercial jingle that over the years has turned into something of a clich\u00e9: <em>It&#8217;s not nice to fool Mother Nature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=wildlifepoaching%20%23shootonsight%20%23SouthAfrica&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I have just read what could be the most dramatic demonstration karma imaginable. The Hill newspaper reports the following: South African wildlife authorities say they have recovered the remains of a man suspected of poaching rhinoceroses, one of Africa&#8217;s most endangered great beasts. But get a load of this . . . they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There&#8217;s fate . . . and then you have this!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4316,4762,8544],"class_list":["post-36477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-south-africa","tag-the-hill","tag-wildlife-poaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36479,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477\/revisions\/36479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}