{"id":171,"date":"2007-09-28T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:40:18","slug":"143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/143","title":{"rendered":"My Sweet Girl Is South Africa Bound."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My girl leaves this weekend for a month long excursion at a game reserve in South Africa, working with conservationists and learning ranger skills.\u00a0 This trip has been in the works for a while, and zoology and animal behavior studies come a close second behind the culinary arts for what would have been her primary field (to the point where she started with animal behavior before shifting to culinary).<\/p>\n<p>She is one of the most courageous people I know.\u00a0 She&#8217;s following a dream, and embarking on an adventure of her own choosing and design.\u00a0 Sure, she&#8217;s nervous as hell, but who wouldn&#8217;t be, really?\u00a0 The fact remains that she is doing it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m proud of her, and inspired as well.\u00a0 She has accomplished more for herself at this point in her life than folks ten years (and more) her senior.\u00a0 She doesn&#8217;t seem to see it, but I do, and I strive to remind her of it as frequently as I can.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, safe journey, and all my love, Sweets.\u00a0 Take care, and know that I&#8217;ll be thinking of you every moment of every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My girl leaves this weekend for a month long excursion at a game reserve in South Africa, working with conservationists and learning ranger skills.\u00a0 This trip has been in the works for a while, and zoology and animal behavior studies come a close second behind the culinary arts for what would have been her primary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestica","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}