{"id":15368,"date":"2016-06-29T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T23:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=15368"},"modified":"2016-06-29T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T23:20:40","slug":"no-elephants-on-the-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/29\/kilimanjaro\/no-elephants-on-the-runway\/","title":{"rendered":"No Elephants On The Runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15369\" style=\"width: 2026px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[15368]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15369\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685.jpg\" alt=\"The team leaving on safari. \" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685.jpg 2016w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1685-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team leaving on safari.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We spoke with Charlotte today from the Serengeti.\u00c2\u00a0 The safari has begun.\u00c2\u00a0 Biggest problem with the flight from Arusha was making sure the elephant weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too close to the runway as they landed.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit of extra effort to go all the way out to the Serengeti but an airplane makes short work of the distance and being there makes it all worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Charlotte said everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s totally psyched but definitely ready for another long night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 The nervous anticipation of the climb is gone and now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all just fun.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2016 We spoke with Charlotte today from the Serengeti.\u00c2\u00a0 The safari has begun.\u00c2\u00a0 Biggest problem with the flight from Arusha was making sure the elephant weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too close to the runway as they landed.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit of extra effort to go all the way out to the Serengeti but an airplane makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15370,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions\/15370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}