{"id":43540,"date":"2012-09-27T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/?p=43540"},"modified":"2012-09-27T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:00:07","slug":"cape-to-cairo-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/cape-to-cairo-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape to Cairo &#8211; Update 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CapetoCairoStuckinSand-250x188-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cape to Cairo - Update 1\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43541\" \/>The convoy of ten MGs left Cape Town, South Africa, to start their journey north on September 9th.  To date (September 27th), the cars have driven through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and into Tanzania (the half way point of the trip).<\/p>\n<p>The rough roads have, unfortunately, battered the cars, with all but two being afflicted by some mechanical maladies. To read about their trials so far, after approximately 5,000 miles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classiccarclinic.com.au\/cape-cairo\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43542\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CapetoCairoKaribaFerry_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Disembarking from the Kariba Dam Ferry\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CapetoCairoKaribaFerry_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CapetoCairoKaribaFerry_resized-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disembarking from the Kariba Dam Ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convoy of ten MGs left Cape Town, South Africa, to start their journey north<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-mg-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}