{"id":651,"date":"2010-02-24T08:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=651"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T22:21:23","slug":"blast-from-the-past-truk-and-a-crocodile-in-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2010\/02\/24\/blast-from-the-past-truk-and-a-crocodile-in-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past &#8211; truk and a Crocodile in 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_truk_croc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-652\" title=\"199908_s_africa_zim_truk_croc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_truk_croc-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_truk_croc-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/199908_s_africa_zim_truk_croc.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We visited a crocodile farm near Victoria Falls, which was actually pretty boring, but I did get to simulate what it would be like on the business end of one of these things.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I didn&#8217;t even like putting my head in the mouth of a stuffed one of these monsters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/trips\/sydney\/20020724_kakadu.php\">We got a chance to spend some quality time with a few of these in the wild a few years later<\/a>, and my appreciation had increased by that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We visited a crocodile farm near Victoria Falls, which was actually pretty boring, but I did get to simulate what it would be like on the business end of one of these things. In short, I didn&#8217;t even like putting my head in the mouth of a stuffed one of these monsters. We got a [&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":[103,111,70],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-103","tag-crocodile","tag-truk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}