{"id":3685,"date":"2009-06-13T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2009-06-13T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T12:02:33","slug":"battle-at-kruger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3685","title":{"rendered":"Battle at Kruger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;m the last person in the world to see this:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LU8DDYz68kM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>44 million views.  It&#8217;s obviously a massive sensation.  It went viral. People passed it around. Talked about it.  Blogged about it.  Years ago.  <strong>And yet I&#8217;ve never heard of it before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How does that happen to someone who basically <em>lives<\/em> on the internet? <\/p>\n<p>If you somehow missed the video like I did, the basic gist is that three water buffalo go down to the water, and are beset by lions.  The (I assume) parents escape, and the young is picked off and the lions begin trying to eat it.  Then a crocodile get involved.  Then more water buffalo. And it has a happy ending. <\/p>\n<p>I found the vido through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1036216\/Pictured-The-incredible-moment-leopard-attacks-crocodile.html\">this<\/a>, which is a series of pictures of a leopard killing a croc.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;m the last person in the world to see this: Link (YouTube) 44 million views. It&#8217;s obviously a massive sensation. It went viral. People passed it around. Talked about it. Blogged about it. Years ago. And yet I&#8217;ve never heard of it before. How does that happen to someone who basically lives on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}