{"id":1052,"date":"2006-05-05T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T10:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2006-05-05T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T10:40:11","slug":"why-i-always-pack-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/05\/05\/why-i-always-pack-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Always Pack Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Dumatau 010 1.jpg\" title=\"Dumatau 010 1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1053\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Dumatau 010 1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dumatau 010 1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi Mike,<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t really see the bubbles floating away here, but this was taken in a village in Zambia, enroute to Botswana game camps. As you know, I always like to travel with a few bottles of bubbles.  It&#8217;s a great ice-breaker for kids and adults, both.  In remote areas, kids often have never seen the bubbles before and the excitement is great fun to watch.  And in cities and places where children are begging, it is a nice diversion for them (and me). I always bring enough to leave behind (usually with a local teacher, monk or some adult who can distribute it fairly).  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog\/karen\/album\/\" target=_\"blank\"> Photo Gallery <\/a><\/p>\n<p>BirdBrain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Mike, You can&#8217;t really see the bubbles floating away here, but this was taken in a village in Zambia, enroute to Botswana game camps. As you know, I always like to travel with a few bottles of bubbles. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/05\/05\/why-i-always-pack-bubbles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdbrain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}