{"id":234502,"date":"2026-07-03T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234502\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:02:09","slug":"robotic-elephants-are-replacing-live-ones-at-kerala-temple-festivals-in-photos-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234502\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic elephants are replacing live ones at Kerala temple festivals, in photos | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHALAKUDY, India (AP) \u2014 In India\u2019s southern state of Kerala, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/india-hindu-temples-sacred-robotic-elephants-6630fc94c56203b30ea755efcfeb4fd4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robotic elephants<\/a> are replacing live ones at some temple festivals. Rising concerns about elephant abuse and dangerous incidents led to the change.<\/p>\n<p>This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHALAKUDY, India (AP) \u2014 In India\u2019s southern state of Kerala, robotic elephants are replacing live ones at some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,73297,38,101236,837,12441,13683,301],"class_list":["post-234502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-fairs-and-festivals","tag-general-news","tag-india-hindu-temples-robotic-elephants-photos","tag-lifestyle","tag-religion","tag-robotics","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}