{"id":714,"date":"2011-09-18T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2016-05-16T03:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:24:41","slug":"let-us-go-and-risk-our-lives-unnecessarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/18\/let-us-go-and-risk-our-lives-unnecessarily\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Go and Risk Our Lives Unnecessarily"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I thought it over; it went against me to lay out strychnine for lions, and I told him that I could not see my way to do it. At that his excitement changed over into exasperation. The lions, he said, if they were left in peace over this crime, would come back another time. The bullocks they had killed were our best working bullocks, and we could not afford to lose any more. The stable of my ponies, he reminded me, was not far from the oxen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enclosure, had I thought of that? I explained that I did not mean to keep the lions on the farm, only I thought that they should be shot and not poisoned.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And who is going to shoot them?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d asked Nichols. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am no coward, but I am a married man and I have no wish to risk my life unnecessarily.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It was true that he was no coward, he was a plucky little man. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There would be no sense in it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. No, I said, I did not mean to make him shoot the lions. But Mr. Finch-Hatton had arrived the night before and was in the house, he and I would go. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, that is O.K.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Nichols.<\/p>\n<p>I then went in to find Denys. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come now,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I said to him, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they have got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dIsak Dinesen, <em>Out of Africa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it over; it went against me to lay out strychnine for lions, and I told him that I could not see my way to do it. At that his excitement changed over into exasperation. The lions, he said, if they were left in peace over this crime, would come back another time. The [&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":[2701,554,208],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-kenya","tag-lions","tag-this-life-is-the-only-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"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! -->