{"id":2757,"date":"2008-09-18T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T04:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/entries\/the-river-nile\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T04:58:35","slug":"the-river-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/the-river-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"The River Nile&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in our back yard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an orchard, so it&#8217;s not a problem to have an enormous mud puddle for days. The boys and their neighbors have been muddy for two days and counting. They&#8217;ve spent hours in the mud, and my shower still hasn&#8217;t recovered from all of them bathing after the adventures are over&#8230;a couple times a day. Jerome and I are learning about the River Nile and ancient Egypt in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Story-World-History-Classical-Earliest\/dp\/1933339012\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1221800024&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Story of the World <\/a>so it was just natural that one should appear in the freshly plowed dirt. It&#8217;s been a blast.<\/p>\n<p>And the pictures of the wood and carving tools was taken by Jerome of his own carving with Daddy&#8217;s real tools!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[rivernile]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1341ps-1.jpg\" title=\" \"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1341ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[rivernile]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1344ps-1.jpg\" title=\" \"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1344ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[rivernile]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1346ps-1.jpg\" title=\" \"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1346ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[rivernile]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1349ps-1.jpg\" title=\" \"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1349ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[rivernile]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1351ps-1.jpg\" title=\" \"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1351ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[rivernile]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1356ps-1.jpg\" title=\" \"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1356ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[rivernile]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1365ps-1.jpg\" title=\" \"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1365ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[rivernile]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1367ps-1.jpg\" title=\" \"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1367ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in our back yard. It&#8217;s an orchard, so it&#8217;s not a problem to have an enormous mud puddle for days. The boys and their neighbors have been muddy for two days and counting. They&#8217;ve spent hours in the mud, and my shower still hasn&#8217;t recovered from all of them bathing after the adventures are over&#8230;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}