{"id":1476,"date":"2003-09-22T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T21:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/22\/kangaroo-named-lulu-acts-like-lassie\/"},"modified":"2003-09-22T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T21:35:57","slug":"kangaroo-named-lulu-acts-like-lassie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/22\/kangaroo-named-lulu-acts-like-lassie\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo Named Lulu Acts Like Lassie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1209'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/kanga.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"199\" align=\"left\"><font color=\"#990000\" size=\"+1\"><strong>Even a Blind<br \/>\n      Kangaroo Finds an Unconscious Farmer Once in a While<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p> A partially blind kangaroo has been hailed a hero after helping<br \/>\n          to rescue a farmer<br \/>\n          who suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a falling branch. <\/p>\n<p>        The pet kangaroo discovered the farmer lying unconscious in a field<br \/>\n          and alerted relatives at their home in Morwell in Gippsland, south<br \/>\n          east Australia.<br \/>\n          The man was checking his property for damage following a severe storm<br \/>\n          when he was struck by<br \/>\n        a falling branch and knocked unconscious. <\/p>\n<p>The farmer was later named as 52-year-old Len Richards. His 17-year-old<br \/>\n        daughter, Celeste, said the eastern grey kangaroo, Lulu, stood guard<br \/>\n      over her father and &quot;barked like a dog&quot; to get help. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_821648.html?menu=news.weirdworld.animaltales\">from Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even a Blind Kangaroo Finds an Unconscious Farmer Once in a While A partially blind kangaroo has been hailed a hero after helping to rescue a farmer who suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a falling branch. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/22\/kangaroo-named-lulu-acts-like-lassie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}