{"id":3025,"date":"2012-10-24T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2012-10-24T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:18:12","slug":"mail-your-toenails-to-the-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3025","title":{"rendered":"Mail your toenails&#8230; to the Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rhinohorn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3026\" title=\"rhinohorn\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rhinohorn-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rhinohorn-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rhinohorn.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Grahamstown man has posted his toenails to the Chinese embassy in Pretoria because he is upset with the escalating number of rhino killed by poachers, according to a report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Star newspaper reported that Mark Wilby clipped off his toenails, put it in an envelope and posted it.<\/p>\n<p>In a YouTube video, he called on other South Africans to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Rhino horn is made of keratin, the same protein in hair, fingernails and toenails, but some Asian countries believe it has medicinal qualities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not enough to say rhino horn is useless,&#8221; Wilby told the publication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to find out more about the market, to understand this thing so we can address the demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The embassy told the newspaper it had not yet received the mail by Tuesday afternoon.- Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Grahamstown man has posted his toenails to the Chinese embassy in Pretoria because he is upset with the escalating number of rhino killed by poachers, according to a report on Wednesday. The Star newspaper reported that Mark Wilby clipped off his toenails, put it in an envelope and posted it. In a YouTube video, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3025\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mail your toenails&#8230; to the Chinese&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1939,1938,1934,1936,1935,12250,1937],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chinese-embassy","tag-keratin","tag-poaching","tag-rhino-horn","tag-rhino-poachinfg","tag-south-africa","tag-toenails"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rhinohorn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3028,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}