{"id":1784,"date":"2020-02-14T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2024-09-24T00:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:21:56","slug":"beware-the-harmattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2020\/02\/14\/beware-the-harmattan\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Harmattan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Short post.  We are here!  Our luggage made it.  All 5 bags, all greater than 50 lbs.  Wow.  Our plan was to fly to Tamale in the morning, but the Harmattan is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Harmattan-to-force-more-flight-diversions-865420\">wreaking havoc with Ghanaian flights<\/a>.  What&#8217;s a Harmattan?  Well&#8230; think dust storm, but without high winds, just imagine walking through clouds of fine red dusk.  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harmattan\">Read more on wikipedia<\/a>.  An email from the local flight provider from Accra to Tamale seemed to indicate tomorrow&#8217;s flight was in jeopardy.  More tomorrow&#8230; we are exhausted and need some sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short post. We are here! Our luggage made it. All 5 bags, all greater than 50 lbs. Wow. Our plan was to fly to Tamale in the morning, but the Harmattan is wreaking havoc with Ghanaian flights. What&#8217;s a Harmattan? Well&#8230; think dust storm, but without high winds, just imagine walking through clouds of fine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2020\/02\/14\/beware-the-harmattan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware the Harmattan<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}