{"id":647,"date":"2010-02-23T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=647"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:16:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T22:16:41","slug":"blast-from-the-past-meeting-a-wild-elephant-in-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2010\/02\/23\/blast-from-the-past-meeting-a-wild-elephant-in-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past &#8211; Meeting a Wild Elephant in 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_elephant_horse_charge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-648\" title=\"199908_s_africa_zim_elephant_horse_charge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_elephant_horse_charge-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_elephant_horse_charge-244x300.jpg 244w, http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_elephant_horse_charge-834x1024.jpg 834w, http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_elephant_horse_charge.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taken on the Zimbabwe side of Victoria Falls, this is a photo of an elephant preparing to charge us while we are on a horse riding tour of a park near the river.<\/p>\n<p>We got a little too close to the elephant, who turned toward us and started to act aggressively. Thankfully, our guide was there to help us slowly back away from the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken on the Zimbabwe side of Victoria Falls, this is a photo of an elephant preparing to charge us while we are on a horse riding tour of a park near the river. We got a little too close to the elephant, who turned toward us and started to act aggressively. Thankfully, our guide was [&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":[103,107,110],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-103","tag-elephant","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}