{"id":258,"date":"2006-03-27T05:50:41","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T10:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/03\/27\/from-hell-to-the-swaziland-frontier-and-on-to-heaven\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T05:50:41","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T10:50:41","slug":"from-hell-to-the-swaziland-frontier-and-on-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/258","title":{"rendered":"From Hell, to the Swaziland frontier, and on to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March experiment&#8212;day twenty-six&#8212;<\/span> Some days start out bad and get worse. Today started out awful, but improved dramatically by evening. I feel fortunate. There were times when a morning like today&#8217;s might gnaw at me for a long time. It may seem obvious, but if you wake up to a spoiled serving, you need to deal with it head on, rather than letting it just sit there and rot.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> My smiling friend, with an African tracker and 1906 Oberndorf Mauser<span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span>proudly displaying his trophy impala in the harsh KwaZulu-Natal landscape.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> An early checklist of leftovers, to make way for a full day with the pen and brush&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March experiment&#8212;day twenty-six&#8212; Some days start out bad and get worse. Today started out awful, but improved dramatically by evening. I feel fortunate. There were times when a morning like today&#8217;s might gnaw at me for a long time. It may seem obvious, but if you wake up to a spoiled serving, you need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,57,6,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}