{"id":6546,"date":"2023-07-25T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/bibliotheek\/do-you-have-a-thing-for-elephants\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:13:08","slug":"do-you-have-a-thing-for-elephants","status":"publish","type":"library_pt","link":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/library\/kolommen\/do-you-have-a-thing-for-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a thing for elephants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-07-25T14:43:00+02:00\">25 July 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One joker even filled in the blank himself by remarking that it\u2019s obviously because I can only see very large animals clearly with my one eye. But my love for these fascinating, powerful animals began long before I started seeing with just one eye!   <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sambo<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the first times I went home with my husband, my father-in-law told me that people at work called him \u201cSambo.\u201d I understood right away why. He was a big man with rather large ears. From the moment I found that out, I regularly sent him postcards with pictures of elephants. He acted almost annoyed, but deep down he enjoyed the cards. That became clear when he made me a little wooden elephant whose trunk and ears you can move by lifting and lowering the tail. On the bottom of the small wooden block the elephant stands on, he carved \u201cMy name is Sambo\u201d in elegant letters. That was the beginning of my enormous collection.         <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Collection<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Family, friends, and acquaintances joined in, and over the years I ended up with a whole collection of small wooden, stone, and glass elephants. That collection is still growing\u2014for example, with elephants from my students, who give them to me instead of flowers. But also with a little wooden elephant I \u201cadopted\u201d because my neighbors didn\u2019t want to take it with them when they moved. And with two little green jade elephants that a student brought back from his trip to China. During a company outing, someone molded a round blue elephant figurine for me that\u2019s so ugly it\u2019s actually beautiful. There\u2019s a story behind every figurine!       <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have informative books about the lives of various species of elephants, as well as books with romanticized stories about these fascinating, gigantic animals. For example: *Modoc*, about the love between a little boy and an elephant. *Pop Aye*, the story of a man who travels back to his homeland with an elephant; this book has also been made into a movie. And then there\u2019s Hansken, the famous elephant that traveled throughout Europe and was sketched by Rembrandt.     <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also regularly receive drawings of elephants. When someone asks why my logo features the elephant\u2019s chubby cheeks, I always say it\u2019s because drawing the head with the trunk is quite difficult. To prove that it\u2019s not as hard as it seems, a student will often draw the front view\u2014while listening to me during a class.    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I&#8217;m still missing one<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there&#8217;s a story behind every elephant in my collection. I cherish those stories. Secretly, though, I&#8217;m still missing one\u2014namely, one that has only one eye.   <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Anita Hol-Bubeck  <\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a huge elephant painted on my garage door. It\u2019s an enlarged version of my company logo. And I have a collection of about 300 elephant figurines. So it\u2019s not really surprising that people often ask if I have a thing for elephants.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6547,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextauttol_enable_tooltips":""},"library_cat":[112],"class_list":["post-6546","library_pt","type-library_pt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_cat-kolommen"],"acf":[],"permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt\/6546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library_pt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_cat?post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}