{"id":636,"date":"2009-11-12T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2009-11-12T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:32:34","slug":"goat-3-chewing-chat-harar-ethiopia-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/goat-3-chewing-chat-harar-ethiopia-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Goat #3 (Chewing Chat), Harar, Ethiopia, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Goat #3 (Chewing Chat), Harar, Ethiopia, 2009 by larkvi (on a research trip, checking rarely), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/4096601110\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2777\/4096601110_49a9276ca8_o.jpg\" alt=\"Goat #3 (Chewing Chat), Harar, Ethiopia, 2009\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This goat is partaking of the leaves of chat (qat), the favorite past-time and narcotic of choice of the Harari people. Only the young soft leaves are chewed to gain the narcotic effects (followed by a period of stimulation), so the rest are thrown into the street for the goats, with predictable results in terms of alternatively sedated and stimulated goats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This goat is partaking of the leaves of chat (qat), the favorite past-time and narcotic of choice of the Harari people. Only the young soft leaves are chewed to gain the narcotic effects (followed by a period of stimulation), so the rest are thrown into the street for the goats, with predictable results in terms &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/goat-3-chewing-chat-harar-ethiopia-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goat #3 (Chewing Chat), Harar, Ethiopia, 2009&#8221;<\/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":[8],"tags":[32,190,287,351,390],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-chat","tag-ethiopia","tag-goat","tag-harar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}