{"id":622,"date":"2010-02-15T08:02:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=622"},"modified":"2010-02-10T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:49:53","slug":"blast-from-the-past-south-african-sundowner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2010\/02\/15\/blast-from-the-past-south-african-sundowner\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past &#8211; South African Sundowner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_cintsa_sundowner_kath_truk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-623\" title=\"199908_s_africa_cintsa_sundowner_kath_truk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_cintsa_sundowner_kath_truk-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_cintsa_sundowner_kath_truk-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_cintsa_sundowner_kath_truk.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along the southern coast of South Africa, many of the hostels have this great tradition, called a sundowner. Basically, it involves buying a few boxes of wine, taking out the bags from the boxes, tying a rope to two corners of the wine bag (making it easier to sling over your shoulder), grabbing some cups and a dozen or so of the total strangers hanging around the hostel, marching up the highest sand dune you can find, and downing a few cups of wine while watching the sunset.<\/p>\n<p>The only person from this photo that I remember is the guy with the stormtrooper shirt behind us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the southern coast of South Africa, many of the hostels have this great tradition, called a sundowner. Basically, it involves buying a few boxes of wine, taking out the bags from the boxes, tying a rope to two corners of the wine bag (making it easier to sling over your shoulder), grabbing some cups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[103,65,104,70],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-103","tag-kath","tag-south-africa","tag-truk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}