{"id":549,"date":"2007-02-03T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/02\/03\/saturday-at-nti\/"},"modified":"2007-02-03T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T13:28:06","slug":"saturday-at-nti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/02\/03\/saturday-at-nti\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday at NTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking advantage of a brief period of <a href=\"\/_static\/site\/NGglossary#nepa\" class=\"glossary\">NEPA<\/a> to boil water, listen to music and write this.<\/p>\n<p>As usual for the weekend I got up fairly late this morning, I was out last night with Monique and my friend (and tailor) Otinu.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast I went kite flying again, Suleiman is getting quite good and the others are improving.  The wind was pretty strong today so I had to keep reminding them of safety precautions like not launching the kite when people are in the way!  Some of the smaller boys were getting dragged around a bit by the wind.  I was watching carefully and made sure they used the safety straps (&#8220;kite killers&#8221;), that way they can just let go of the handles and the kite will drop out of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>I just had some soup for lunch, I made it on Thursday to use up all the vegetables in the fridge.  I think it was carrot, tomato, green pepper, garlic and &#8220;american cucumber&#8221; (a roundish yellow thing that I think is some kind of squash).  As usual, after a few days and a spin in the liquidiser it was even better than when I made it.  I enjoy my small culinary successes.<\/p>\n<p>In a little while I&#8217;ll have to head off to the market to stock up again, the fridge is looking pretty bare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking advantage of a brief period of NEPA to boil water, listen to music and write this. As usual for the weekend I got up fairly late this morning, I was out last night with Monique and my friend (and tailor) Otinu. After breakfast I went kite flying again, Suleiman is getting quite good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}