{"id":5782,"date":"2024-09-24T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T08:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2024-09-24T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T08:55:59","slug":"gundogs-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5782","title":{"rendered":"Gundogs, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5511\">Previously<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This time the weather was a <em>lot<\/em> better.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take many pictures, the above is a crappy cellphone pic. Nice idea of what the area (Bot River mouth, that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/arabellacountryestate.co.za\/\">Arabella<\/a> on the right) looks like.<\/p>\n<p>I was there for five of the six days. This is too much (up at 06:00, get home &gt; 17:30) but they are desperately short of guns and without guns the competition can&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They do take good care of us, this was breakfast the one day (admittedly the best looking of the lot, but all the food was good).<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully next year I can get away with two days max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Previously) This time the weather was a lot better. I didn&#8217;t take many pictures, the above is a crappy cellphone pic. Nice idea of what the area (Bot River mouth, that&#8217;s Arabella on the right) looks like. I was there for five of the six days. This is too much (up at 06:00, get home &gt; 17:30) but they are desperately short of guns and without guns the competition can&#8217;t happen. They do take good care of us, this was breakfast the one day (admittedly the best looking of the lot, but all the food was good). Hopefully next year&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}