{"id":915,"date":"2019-05-20T02:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T02:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/?p=915"},"modified":"2019-05-22T03:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T03:56:39","slug":"sights-of-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/2019\/05\/20\/sights-of-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Sights of Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Odds and Ends watched from the long ride to and from Puerto Princesa to El Nido and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>a grey dog sitting on a pile of roadside scree staring off into the distance\n<\/li><li>a family living under a blue tarp in a gulley beneath the road \n<\/li><li>white egrets working squared off flat-flooded plots of land \nwith water buffalo, one egret standing on the back of a laying buffalo\n<\/li><li>cattle egrets. Did they get their name because they hang around\n cattle or because it looks like a cattle just crapped on their head?\n<\/li><li>a man sweeping the road of construction gravel in the rain with a witches broom\n<\/li><li>a token mango seed weevil inspection of the van that any even mildly crafty weevil could have breached \n<\/li><li>a boy riding his roadside grazing water buffalo\n<\/li><li>people standing in line waiting to vote at the local school\n<\/li><li>a painting of the landscape photo I wanted to take of the El Nido sunset descending over the ocean between two islands\n<\/li><li>an outdoor basketball court with wooden backboards and dirt grass court\n<\/li><li>jungle jungle jungle\n<\/li><li>banana trees and sugar cane fields, some of the sugar cane fields smoldering back to the black ground\n<\/li><li>jack fruit and stunted bananas at a thatched roadside stand\n<\/li><li>sales children offering packets of coconut vinegar\n<\/li><li>a karst tower rising out of the flat ground\n<\/li><li>a woman parasailing on the back of a scooter with a white spotted purple umbrella\n<\/li><li>a painting at the seafood grill of kids playing together with \nthe caption that says &#8220;I&#8217;m glad I grew up before technology took over.&#8221;\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And the pics that I actually did take. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1Y8dkaUD7xL3BQJs2FPIYZWmEwPpNTZaO\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All works are original work of the authors subject to Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licensing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a sad note, I lost my Nikon 3400 camera to a wet bag. It was supposed to be a dry bag and I wanted some pictures of a very beautiful hidden beach but it didn&#8217;t survive the swim over. While not entirely pleased with the loss, I take it as a message from the universe to always respect and enjoy the moment, it&#8217;s the only way to really hold it forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Odds and Ends watched from the long ride to and from Puerto Princesa to El Nido and back. a grey dog sitting on a pile of roadside scree staring off into the distance a family living under a blue tarp in a gulley beneath the road white egrets working squared off flat-flooded plots of land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}