{"id":733,"date":"2006-11-06T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2006-11-06T13:53:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T13:53:59","slug":"cheeta_lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/06\/cheeta_lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheeta Lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huh&#8230; here&#8217;s an interesting factoid I&#8217;ve just run across: it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheeta\">Cheeta<\/a>, the chimpanzee who co-starred with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Weissmuller\">Johnny Weissmuller<\/a> in all those Tarzan movies of the 1930s and &#8217;40s, is still alive. Now 74 years old, he holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest known (non-human) primate. He lives in an <a href=\"http:\/\/cheetathechimp.org\/index.html\">animal sanctuary<\/a> that bears his name and a mission to &#8220;provide residence, care, and rehabilitation for homeless or unwanted ex-show business primates.&#8221; Much like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norma_Desmond\">Norma Desmond<\/a>, the retired ape reportedly passes his time watching his old films and painting. Yes, painting. As in art. You can even <a href=\"http:\/\/cheetathechimp.org\/donate.html#painting\">buy one of his canvases<\/a>, if you so desire. The money goes to support the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I find this story positively charming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huh&#8230; here&#8217;s an interesting factoid I&#8217;ve just run across: it seems that Cheeta, the chimpanzee who co-starred with Johnny Weissmuller in all those Tarzan movies of the 1930s and &#8217;40s, is still alive. Now 74 years old, he holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest known (non-human) primate. He lives in an animal sanctuary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}