{"id":669396,"date":"2010-02-18T22:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877b719eb970c"},"modified":"2010-02-18T22:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:12:18","slug":"speak-up-francis-cuba-to-conduct-census-of-the-countrys-mules-due-to-beast-of-burden-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669396","title":{"rendered":"Speak up, Francis: Cuba to conduct census of the country&#8217;s mules due to beast-of-burden deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef012877b71926970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francis\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877b71926970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef012877b71926970c-800wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 5px\" title=\"Francis\"><\/img><\/a> HAVANA \u2014 Will all Cuban mules please stand up? Or at least raise a hoof or two. The communist government says it is facing a major mule deficit and has commissioned a census of the beasts of burden to determine how bad the problem is.<\/p>\n<p>How many mules are in Cuba is unknown &#8212; hence the need for the census. But authorities tell the government news agency AIN that the island may be facing a deficit of 8,000 in highlands areas alone.<\/p>\n<p>The agency praised the animals as &quot;very important for the transportation of food in mountainous areas.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Officials will carry out the census between March 1 and 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal news on the go: Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Actor Donald O&#8217;Connor practices with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_the_Talking_Mule\">Francis the Talking Mule<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA \u2014 Will all Cuban mules please stand up? Or at least raise a hoof or two. The communist government says it is facing a major mule deficit and has commissioned a census of the beasts of burden to determine how bad the problem is. How many mules are in Cuba is unknown &#8212; hence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2O8I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}