{"id":5097,"date":"2026-11-01T06:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5097"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:16:01","slug":"hippo-and-a-reed-boat-on-a-lake-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5097","title":{"rendered":"Hippo and a reed boat on a lake in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1345\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hippo-and-a-reed-boat-on-a-lake-in-ethiopia.jpg?resize=2048%2C1345&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hippopotamus with only its head above brown water as a man sits in a long reed boat near green reeds\" class=\"wp-image-5096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hippo-and-a-reed-boat-on-a-lake-in-ethiopia.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hippo-and-a-reed-boat-on-a-lake-in-ethiopia.jpg?resize=250%2C164&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hippo-and-a-reed-boat-on-a-lake-in-ethiopia.jpg?resize=700%2C460&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hippo-and-a-reed-boat-on-a-lake-in-ethiopia.jpg?resize=768%2C504&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hippo-and-a-reed-boat-on-a-lake-in-ethiopia.jpg?resize=1536%2C1009&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>A hippopotamus rests with its head above brown water while a man sits in a long reed boat near the green shore. The photographer says it was taken in Ethiopia in October; the exact location was not given.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A hippopotamus rests with its head above brown water while a man sits in a long reed boat near the green shore. The photographer says it was taken in Ethiopia in October; the exact location was not given.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tdbearcat\/status\/1984633609706209357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TD (@tdbearcat) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hippopotamus rests with its head above brown water while a man sits in a long reed boat near the green shore. The photographer says it was taken in Ethiopia in October; the exact location was not given. A hippopotamus rests with its head above brown water while a man sits in a long reed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"photographer":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[108,2737,2739,2738,2602],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild-life","tag-ethiopia","tag-hippopotamus","tag-lake","tag-reed-boat","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hippo-and-a-reed-boat-on-a-lake-in-ethiopia.jpg?fit=2048%2C1345&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}