{"id":104,"date":"2009-03-09T07:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgeonedev.com\/aprilsblog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2012-02-17T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T03:42:53","slug":"arriving-in-harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy picked me upat the Harare airport\u00a0 and I gave her the most grateful hug imaginable.\u00a0 Jan, the owner is not back from a trip to Kenya.\u00a0 He is a soil scientist working for the UN. He travels extensively in sometimes dangerous areas to help set up projects that support growing crops.\u00a0 Cathy is his partner at Bushbaby.<\/p>\n<p>Riding was a little hairy.\u00a0 Steering wheels are on the right. We drive on the left side of the road. The stop lights are out so every man\/woman for himself\/herself at an intersection.\u00a0 On the country roads, pedestrians and school children scatter as the vehicle plows forward.\u00a0 There are 2 designated lanes of traffic but someone wanting to pass might tailgate and eventually carve out a new lane down the middle.\u00a0 There are potentially 4 lanes, one might be in the gutter.\u00a0 Help.\u00a0 Cathy is a good driver so I didn&#8217;t feel like crawling on the floor and hiding my head though a little quick on the passing.\u00a0 I was happy that all the pedestrians had good karma.<\/p>\n<p>Sent from my iPhone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy picked me upat the Harare airport\u00a0 and I gave her the most grateful hug imaginable.\u00a0 Jan, the owner is not back from a trip to Kenya.\u00a0 He is a soil scientist working for the UN. He travels extensively in sometimes dangerous areas to help set up projects that support growing crops.\u00a0 Cathy is his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}