{"id":1523,"date":"2004-05-22T01:39:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T05:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/05\/22\/\/"},"modified":"2004-05-22T01:39:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-22T05:39:30","slug":"1523","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/1523\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa:<br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iafrica.com\/news\/sa\/324081.htm\" rel=\"external\">Man fined for drunk-driving donkey cart<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/donkey-cart.jpg\" alt=\"South African donkey cart\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>Hans du Toit was fined nearly $300 for drunk driving a donkey cart in a small town north of Johannesburg and then telling police he was unconcerned &#8220;because the animals knew the way home&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Traffic officials noticed his donkey cart swerving all over Philipolis main road on Wednesday. He was told not to continue driving, &#8220;But when the policeman left, I decided: &#8216;I know this road and so does my donkeys. If I don&#8217;t find it, my donkeys will,&#8221; Du Toit said in a statement before court.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic officials and the court took a stern view and sentenced Du Toit to the fine or two years in jail, of which 21 months were suspended for four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa:Man fined for drunk-driving donkey cart Hans du Toit was fined nearly $300 for drunk driving a donkey cart in a small town north of Johannesburg and then telling police he was unconcerned &#8220;because the animals knew the way home&#8221;. Traffic officials noticed his donkey cart swerving all over Philipolis main road on Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}