{"id":396,"date":"2005-03-31T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2005\/03\/31\/easter-weekend\/"},"modified":"2005-04-04T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T14:14:37","slug":"easter-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2005\/03\/31\/easter-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Easter Sunday a few of us Abuja-based VSOs travelled up to Usuma Dam for a picnic.  This is the main water supply for Abuja, but is actually quite a pleasant place to go.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> added the pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/PicnicGroup_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/PicnicGroup_t.jpg\" alt=\"Chantal, Gina, Kate and Ilse around our picnic at Usuma Dam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe reservoir at Usuma Dam is quite a pleasant place to spend an afternoon, we weren&#8217;t the only ones having a picnic there.  A herdsman even passed by with his cows and sheep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/UsumaReservoir_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/UsumaReservoir_t.jpg\" alt=\"A view across the reservoir towards the dam\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/Cattle1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/Cattle1_t.jpg\" alt=\"Boy herding his cattle round the reservoir\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/Cattle2_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/Cattle2_t.jpg\" alt=\"Cattle grazing beside the reservoir\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of the picnic we decorated some hard-boiled eggs and hid them for the local kids:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/HiddenEgg_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UsumaDam\/HiddenEgg_t.jpg\" alt=\"Decorated egg hidden in a tree\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Easter Sunday a few of us Abuja-based VSOs travelled up to Usuma Dam for a picnic. This is the main water supply for Abuja, but is actually quite a pleasant place to go. Update: added the pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}