{"id":1175,"date":"2012-10-26T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2012-10-26T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:46:18","slug":"foxy-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/2012\/10\/26\/foxy-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxy Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>J. was wrong on this day, October 26, Anno Domino 2012. It happened that he and his wife, son, and daughter were taking a morning drive in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park on the South African side when they came across a dog-like creature walking, laying down, and then watching while her three pups played around he<br \/>\nJ. claimed it was a black-backed jackal, and his family originally agreed. After looking through the binoculars and checking the guide books, it was established that the dog was, in fact, not a black-backed jackal but a Cape fox. This idea was firmly dismissed by J., and his wife accepted this.<br \/>\nUntil she didn\u2019t. His wife, S., looked through the binoculars and checked and double-checked the guide books. J.\u2019s children, E. and G., knew that it was a Cape fox. S. knew it was a Cape fox. J. didn\u2019t believe for a long while after S. had finished exclaiming, \u201c[The pups] are <\/em>so<em> cute!!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When we arrived at Waterfront Guest Farm here in Upington, South Africa, we found the once-annual \u201cmarket\u201d going on. There was food, things to buy, and ice cream. We had chicken and salad, and Ethan and Dad had ice cream. We can still hear the tittering of the girls my age as they talk outside. They were sort of wrestling on the grass, and one ran into the back of my chair. Dad said, \u201cEthan, they\u2019re flinging themselves at you. Not that they have very good aim, but, still.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ethan was blushing.<\/p>\n<p>Ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. was wrong on this day, October 26, Anno Domino 2012. It happened that he and his wife, son, and daughter were taking a morning drive in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park on the South African side when they came across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/2012\/10\/26\/foxy-friday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[231,232,18,153,35,140,155],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eryn-slug","tag-eryn-slug","tag-ethan-slug","tag-food","tag-kgalagadi","tag-pegacorns-and-unipegs","tag-south-africa","tag-upington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}