{"id":11,"date":"2009-06-05T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-01-31T23:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T23:10:17","slug":"remembering-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/esb-fun1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/esb-fun1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-14\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-14'>\n\t\t\t\t6 years ago.  Finding an elephant skull\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/esb-fun2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/esb-fun2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-15\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-15'>\n\t\t\t\tTaming a black rhino (10yr old blonde girls can do that)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Emily&#8217;s last trip to Africa was when she was in 4th grade.\u00a0 She was 10 years old.\u00a0 What an adventure.\u00a0 We visited the Mpala research station (http:\/\/www.mpala.org\/) and I installed a Linux system that they used as their server for years.\u00a0 We helped setup some experiments, and explored the region via borrowed 4&#215;4.\u00a0 We also visited Solomon, a friend who offers Nairobi kids living on the street a home in an orphange run by the Church.\u00a0 The orphanage is out in the countryside, in a beautiful and green area.\u00a0 Emily and I will have a similar chance to help out with some kids in Botswana.\u00a0 More later&#8230; we have to head to the airport in a few minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily&#8217;s last trip to Africa was when she was in 4th grade.\u00a0 She was 10 years old.\u00a0 What an adventure.\u00a0 We visited the Mpala research station (http:\/\/www.mpala.org\/) and I installed a Linux system that they used as their server for years.\u00a0 We helped setup some experiments, and explored the region via borrowed 4&#215;4.\u00a0 We also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/?p=11\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering Africa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}