{"id":845,"date":"2012-03-14T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=845"},"modified":"2025-06-19T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:18:32","slug":"best-music-for-hanging-out-with-giraffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Best music for hanging out with giraffes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you&#8217;re editing vacation videos, it&#8217;s always fun to come up with the best music &#8211; ideally one that conveys the right mood, maybe something that relates to the place you&#8217;re visiting.&nbsp; But sometimes the best music to convey the mood is no music at all.&nbsp; In this video, we managed to get awfully close to some giraffes, who appeared as interested in us as we were in them.&nbsp; To convey the quiet, peaceful calm as these gentle giants foraged on acacia trees, all the while watching us with a wary eye, it seemed best to just use the sounds of surrounding nature.&nbsp; I also let it run a bit long &#8211; there&#8217;s no major action.&nbsp; Just hanging out with the giraffes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[As a side note, it should be mentioned that giraffes, when cornered or startled, possess a kick powerful enough to kill a lion.&nbsp; Lest you try and get even closer than we did.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Walking with Giraffes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rY3MKqle6C0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re editing vacation videos, it&#8217;s always fun to come up with the best music &#8211; ideally one that conveys the right mood, maybe something that relates to the place you&#8217;re visiting.&nbsp; But sometimes the best music to convey the mood is no music at all.&nbsp; In this video, we managed to get awfully close [&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":[6,339,107],"tags":[340,498,1782,1794,51,1789],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-namibia","category-wildlife","tag-africa","tag-giraffes","tag-music","tag-namibia","tag-soundtrack","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}