{"id":825899,"date":"2026-08-26T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825899\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:00:09","slug":"have-you-seen-this-father-and-daughter-play-music-for-graceful-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825899\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen This? Father and daughter play music for graceful elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THAILAND \u2014 You know those videos of cows joyously listening to music? This is like that, but in my opinion, better.<\/p>\n<p>Feast your eyes and ears on the peacefulness that is 10-year-old Emilie and her father, pianist Paul Barton, sweetly serenading Seetong the elephant.<\/p>\n<p>Do elephants dance? I swear Seetong was swaying as she listened to &#8220;Aria&#8221; by Eug\u00e8ne Bozza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ksl-article-content\">\n<p>Put yourself into Seetong&#8217;s metaphorical shoes. As an elephant, how often do you get to listen to music, and not just that, but live music? What a treat it must be to use your giant ears to hear the rich sound of a saxophone and the beautiful accompaniment of the piano.<\/p>\n<p>As a human who can listen to classical music whenever I&#8217;d like, I&#8217;m sure this is a cherished moment for Seetong. I know Paul and Emilie savored the experience as well, getting to share their music with such a magnificent creature.<\/p>\n<p>If ever you have the opportunity to share art with an elephant, I would recommend you take it.<\/p>\n<p>Have You Seen This?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THAILAND \u2014 You know those videos of cows joyously listening to music? This is like that, but in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,1302,3811,88,3812,134,3729,216,7221,3,3813,3814,79,99,1505,2987,3324,2986,201],"class_list":["post-825899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-entertainment","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-music","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825899","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=825899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}