{"id":1364,"date":"2010-09-17T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2015-04-02T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:52:54","slug":"why-the-warthog-is-so-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/why-the-warthog-is-so-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Warthog is so Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"

The eighth folklore story … just a couple more to go !<\/p>\n

Why the Warthog is so Ugly <\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Beginning, the Warthog was the most handsome animal. He knew this, and unfortunately became very vain.<\/p>\n

\"warthog-07\"As a result, none of the other animals liked Warthog very much.<\/p>\n

One morning, Warthog left his burrow, and wandered off with his tail proudly sticking up in search of food.<\/p>\n

He passed Porcupine, who had been up all night foraging for food. Porcupine was extremely tired, and wanted to go to sleep, but he still had a long way to go before he reached his home.<\/p>\n

Porcupine had an idea. Why not nip into Warthog’s burrow and have a quick nap before Warthog returned? So Porcupine went down the burrow and promptly fell asleep.<\/p>\n

Meantime, Warthog found a waterhole, and wallowed in the mud, and then found some good grass to graze on.<\/p>\n

\"05\"Nearby, lying under a tree, was Lion. Warthog couldn’t resist showing off how handsome he was, all covered in mud.<\/p>\n

Lion was in a particularly bad mood this morning, and having the Warthog parade around him was just too much to bear. With a great roar he charged Warthog.<\/p>\n

Warthog, realising that he had pushed Lion too far this time, panicked, and ran as fast as he could back towards his burrow, with the angry Lion very close behind.<\/p>\n

Warthog ran headfirst straight into his burrow, knowing that Lion could not follow him in. Lion stopped outside the burrow entrance and roared angrily.<\/p>\n

\"african-porcupine-namibia_fs_fs\"Porcupine, who had been sleeping soundly, awoke with a start. Thinking that he was being attacked, he stood up and spread his quills ready to fend off anyone.<\/p>\n

Warthog was running so fast into his burrow, he was unable to slow down when he saw Porcupine, and ran straight into him.<\/p>\n

Warthog cried out in pain, because many quills became stuck in his face and nose.<\/p>\n

In haste, Warthog backed quickly out of the burrow again.<\/p>\n

Lion, seeing the Warthog coming out with a face full of quills, laughed gleefully.<\/p>\n

“Serves you right,” said Lion. “That will teach you to be so vain.”<\/p>\n

When the other animals heard what had happened to Warthog, they all came to laugh too, and no one helped to pull out the quills.<\/p>\n

Poor Warthog’s face swelled up, and his once handsome features disappeared.<\/p>\n

He was very upset, but realised that he had learnt a hard lesson for being so vain. And still, to this day, the Warthog is still ugly – and also always enters his burrow backwards – just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The eighth folklore story … just a couple more to go ! Why the Warthog is so Ugly In the Beginning, the Warthog was the most handsome animal. He knew this, and unfortunately became very vain. As a result, none of the other animals liked Warthog very much. One morning, Warthog left his burrow, and […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,8],"tags":[449,619,614],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","category-south-africa","category-travel-butlers","tag-lion","tag-porcupine","tag-warthog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}