{"id":869,"date":"2014-11-03T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2020-11-22T15:18:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T15:18:28","slug":"happy-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"Happy Landing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">More by luck than good management, I returned home safe and sound from my October desert voyage, the hottest one ever, and am now busily preparing for a much cooler excursion in January, when I must remember at all times to hold on to the front of my camel saddle: In a single second of carelessness, I am ashamed to say I slid off my dromedary\u2019s hind quarters as he was clambering up a very steep dune, but happily for me, the soft Saharan sand made for the cosiest of landings with not a single bruise to show for my mishap! It was rather like going down a slide backwards. Thankfully no-one was there with a camera to record this inelegant incident, and Zeydoun obediently knelt down for me to climb back on again.\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More by luck than good management, I returned home safe and sound from my October desert voyage, the hottest one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/?p=869\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.camelvoyages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}