{"id":1667,"date":"2023-12-13T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2023-12-13T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:55:33","slug":"a-man-who-lived-with-a-wild-gorilla-for-6-years-ignores-warnings-about-introducing-his-wife-to-his-family-as-a-gorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"A man who lived with a wild gorilla for 6 years ignores warnings about introducing his wife to his family as a gorilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecologist Damien Aspinal decided to introduce his new wife, Victoria, to his two gorilla friends, Galta and Emma. Despite warnings from his peers, he was convinced he was doing the right thing. However, he wasn\u2019t prepared for the gorilla\u2019s reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Damian raised Galta and Emma when they were young to 12-year-old monkeys before releasing them into the woods. He found his old friends after four years in their natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria was meeting animals for the first time. However, Damian had to be careful. The monkeys didn\u2019t like people visiting their land and Damien had to be careful.<\/p>\n<p>The couple crossed a river full of crocodiles to meet the monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Although they had been in the woods for many years, the two monkeys happily welcomed Damian with open arms and fell in love with Victoria. Pretty 300lb Emma allowed Victoria to lie on her lap while he played with her hair. He even stole his hat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heart-warming moment WILD GORILLAS accept Damian Aspinall&#039;s wife Victoria - OFFICIAL VIDEO\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_X57lHbQP6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecologist Damien Aspinal decided to introduce his new wife, Victoria, to his two gorilla friends, Galta and Emma. Despite warnings from his peers, he was convinced he&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}