{"id":77750,"date":"2018-02-16T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77750"},"modified":"2018-02-16T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:15:51","slug":"weekend-open-thread-207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77750","title":{"rendered":"Weekend open thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/photography\/photo-of-the-day\/2018\/02\/elephant-dust-south-africa\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77751\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dust-300x190.jpg?resize=300%2C190\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dust.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dust.jpg?resize=768%2C485&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dust.jpg?resize=500%2C316&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dust.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 16, 2018<br \/>\nDust Bath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In South Africa&#8217;s Madikwe Game Reserve, an elephant uses its trunk to create a dust shower. Elephants use dust to protect their skin from bug bites and the sun&#8217;s harsh rays.<\/em> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>On an administrative note, my computer is deadlined and I&#8217;m working on the POS that I replaced. All I did was update my new computer from a Dell upload and it tanked. Screw Dell. I&#8217;ll do my best with this old POS, until they get here to fix the new computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 16, 2018 Dust Bath In South Africa&#8217;s Madikwe Game Reserve, an elephant uses its trunk to create a dust shower. Elephants use dust to protect their skin from bug bites and the sun&#8217;s harsh rays. On an administrative note, my computer is deadlined and I&#8217;m working on the POS that I replaced. All I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dust.jpg?fit=1024%2C647&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ke2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}