{"id":591,"date":"2011-08-26T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=591"},"modified":"2011-08-26T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:22:48","slug":"spot-the-dassies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Spot the Dassies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you spot the &#8220;dassies&#8221; in the photo below?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_01041.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-596\" title=\"IMG_0104\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_01041.jpg?resize=642%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_01041.jpg?w=642&amp;ssl=1 642w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_01041.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;dassie&#8221; or rock hyrax, lives everywhere here in Windhoek.\u00a0 Driving down my street after work, I&#8217;ll see them sitting in groups of 2 or 3 at every sewer opening along the road.\u00a0 They disappear with a splash when I get closer &#8211; but apparently feel no fear whatsoever when approached by our 120-pound dog.<\/p>\n<p>There are 3 &#8220;dassies&#8221; in the photo above.\u00a0 Their closest living relative is apparently the elephant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_01031.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-595\" title=\"IMG_0103\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_01031.jpg?resize=649%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_01031.jpg?w=649&amp;ssl=1 649w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_01031.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you spot the &#8220;dassies&#8221; in the photo below? The &#8220;dassie&#8221; or rock hyrax, lives everywhere here in Windhoek.\u00a0 Driving down my street after work, I&#8217;ll see them sitting in groups of 2 or 3 at every sewer opening along the road.\u00a0 They disappear with a splash when I get closer &#8211; but apparently feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[354,355],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-musings","tag-dassie","tag-hyrax"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}