{"id":600,"date":"2008-10-04T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swaziland2008.mcguireclan.org\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:21:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:21:52","slug":"arrive-in-swaziland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Arrive in Swaziland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/steve-james-larry1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53\" title=\"steve-james-larry1\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/steve-james-larry1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"James Burnett, Steve Stavropoulos and Larry\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Burnett, Steve Stavropoulos and Larry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Stravropouloses picked us up this morning for the trip to Swaziland.\u00a0 The first half of the trip is through open county that is similar to the terrain and vegetation of central Kansas.\u00a0 We then entered more hilly country with man made forest of gum (eucalyptus) trees, used for electric, telephone and other poles, and pine trees used for lumber.\u00a0 There were newly planted areas and others of various sizes up to those ready for &#8216;harvest&#8217;.\u00a0 The hills then became more mountainous, similar to mountains in the Appalachians.<\/p>\n<p>We reached the Swaziland border in about three hours.\u00a0 First passing through the South Afrian border post then the Swaziland one.\u00a0 Big changes have occurred here.\u00a0 No papers to fill out anymore!!\u00a0 Passports are scanned by a computer now resulting in much faster processing.<\/p>\n<p>We made two stops on the way to where we are staying.\u00a0 First at the Ngwenya Glass Factory then a side trip to a new dam on the Komati River just off the road to Piggs Peak.\u00a0 It is an earthen dam which has won engineering awards for design.\u00a0 The Swaziland Electricity Board has a 20 megawatt turbine in operation there.<\/p>\n<p>We are staying in a one room cottage with bathroom next to the Stavropoulos&#8217; house and will be eating meals with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stravropouloses picked us up this morning for the trip to Swaziland.\u00a0 The first half of the trip is through open county that is similar to the terrain and vegetation of central Kansas.\u00a0 We then entered more hilly country with man made forest of gum (eucalyptus) trees, used for electric, telephone and other poles, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,12],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swaziland-2008","tag-9","tag-swaziland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}