{"id":655,"date":"2011-04-15T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2016-05-16T03:30:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:30:24","slug":"two-lions-in-the-stockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/two-lions-in-the-stockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Lions in the Stockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By now all the school-children were coming out of the school, pouring down the road to stop in sight of us and there to cry out in a low soft voice: &#8220;Msabu. Are you there? Are you there? Msabu, Msabu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I sat on a lion and cried back to them: &#8220;Yes I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then they went on, louder and more boldly: &#8220;Has Bed\u00c3\u00a2r shot the lions? Both two?&#8221; When they found that it was so, they were at once all over the place, like a swarm of small spring-hares of the night, jumping up and down. They, then and there, made a song upon the event; it ran as follows: &#8220;Three shots. Two lions. Three shots. Two lions.&#8221; They embroidered and embellished it as they sang it, one clear voice falling in after the other: &#8220;Three good shots, two big strong bad kali lions.&#8221; And then they all joined into an intoxicated refrain: &#8220;A. B. C. D.&#8221;,\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbecause they came straight from the school, and had their heads filled with wisdom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Isak Dinesen, <em>Out of Africa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now all the school-children were coming out of the school, pouring down the road to stop in sight of us and there to cry out in a low soft voice: &#8220;Msabu. Are you there? Are you there? Msabu, Msabu.&#8221; I sat on a lion and cried back to them: &#8220;Yes I am.&#8221; Then they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[554,296,154],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-lions","tag-quotes","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->