{"id":586342,"date":"2026-04-15T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:04:12","slug":"cnn-exclusive-dana-bash-goes-behind-the-scenes-with-the-baby-asian-elephant-at-the-national-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586342\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN exclusive: Dana Bash goes behind the scenes with the baby Asian elephant at the National Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN exclusive: Dana Bash goes behind the scenes with the baby Asian elephant at the National Zoo\n                <\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Dana Bash describes it as \u201cone of the coolest things\u201d she\u2019s ever done. She gets the exclusive opportunity to meet &amp; feed the Smithsonian National Zoo\u2019s newest addition, Asian elephant Linh Mai. Dana learns about the 440-pound, 2-month old baby and gives her a special treat. Dana takes you behind the scenes and inside Linh Mai&#8217;s journey and the Smithsonian\u2019s efforts to conserve these endangered giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN exclusive: Dana Bash goes behind the scenes with the baby Asian elephant at the National Zoo CNN\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-586342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}