{"id":1467,"date":"2010-09-19T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:39:32","slug":"travel-butlers-trivia-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/travel-butlers-trivia-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Butlers Trivia 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Thorn tree is also known locally as the Tree of Life.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite distinctive, in that it has a zig zag branch structure with hooks and thorns in pairs together, along the branch.<\/p>\n<p>Locals believe that the branch reflects life, which is never a straight line; the hooks (which face backwards towards the trunk) symbolise the past; and the thorns (which face away from the trunk) represent the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Thorn tree is also known locally as the Tree of Life. It is quite distinctive, in that it has a zig zag branch structure with hooks and thorns in pairs together, along the branch. Locals believe that the branch reflects life, which is never a straight line; the hooks (which face backwards towards [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/travel-butlers-trivia-6\/\">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":[3,8],"tags":[640],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","category-travel-butlers","tag-buffalo-thorn-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","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=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}