{"id":2564,"date":"2008-09-23T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2008-09-23T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:46:56","slug":"why-im-going-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m going to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to enjoy Africa a great deal, and no doubt. But I’m telling you, the reason is not the hunting, though the hunting will be good. Not the hiking, though the hiking will be amazing. Not the outdoors, though the outdoors there will be incredible.<\/p>\n

No, I most want to be in Africa because I want to set foot on the continent that Hemingway loved so, and while I won’t be visiting a lot of the places he went, I will be there. From the very first time I saw this picture <\/a>of him drinking from his hat out of the Oleibortoto Creek in Kenya, I wanted to stand on the dark continent and breathe the air Hemingway breathed. Ten days now, before I step up onto that plane. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to enjoy Africa a great deal, and no doubt. But I’m telling you, the reason is not the hunting, though the hunting will be good. Not the hiking, though the hiking will be amazing. Not the outdoors, though the outdoors there will be incredible. No, I most want to be in Africa because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}