{"id":444,"date":"2010-05-10T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T01:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=444"},"modified":"2010-05-10T18:51:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T01:51:19","slug":"on-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"On Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They said they were going on Safari, for which evidently the only equipment required is a pair of binoculars, known around here as a &#8220;close up camera.&#8221;  That&#8217;s what Dusty called it when he was their age anyway.  No matter that Dusty is 25 now.  Some things your family will never let you outgrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4594335434\/\" title=\"IMG_4534 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1299\/4594335434_e299c75422.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what caused this look of surprise so great that his hair literally stood on end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4597399584\/\" title=\"IMG_4570 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3339\/4597399584_c24defec26.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4570\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suspect it had something to do with the wild animal that followed them home from Safari.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4597418242\/\" title=\"IMG_4599 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3145\/4597418242_92518b4810.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4599\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It attacked viciously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4596795085\/\" title=\"IMG_4585 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4009\/4596795085_78511910a7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4585\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They had to run for their lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4597407342\/\" title=\"IMG_4579 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3414\/4597407342_17e9c0676b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4579\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And guard their food supplies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4593744145\/\" title=\"IMG_4525 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1421\/4593744145_2514c19fb4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the creature was no match<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4596797665\/\" title=\"IMG_4587 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3378\/4596797665_dff34b5cb7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4587\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>for Safari boys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4594362960\/\" title=\"IMG_4550 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1111\/4594362960_034435313a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4597398262\/\" title=\"IMG_4571 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4054\/4597398262_d079ffc2a0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4571\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said they were going on Safari, for which evidently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}