{"id":5261,"date":"2026-11-07T06:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T11:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5261"},"modified":"2026-11-07T06:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T11:10:33","slug":"camels-crossing-the-highway-near-dire-dawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5261","title":{"rendered":"Camels crossing the highway near Dire Dawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/camels-crossing-the-highway-near-dire-dawa.jpg?resize=2048%2C996&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Camels walking across an empty paved highway through dry scrubland with hills in the distance\" class=\"wp-image-5260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/camels-crossing-the-highway-near-dire-dawa.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/camels-crossing-the-highway-near-dire-dawa.jpg?resize=250%2C122&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/camels-crossing-the-highway-near-dire-dawa.jpg?resize=700%2C340&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/camels-crossing-the-highway-near-dire-dawa.jpg?resize=768%2C374&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/camels-crossing-the-highway-near-dire-dawa.jpg?resize=1536%2C747&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Camels cross an empty paved highway through dry scrubland on the road to Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia. The poster recalled the 2018 trip when sharing it in July 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Camels cross an empty paved highway through dry scrubland on the road to Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia. The poster recalled the 2018 trip when sharing it in July 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kampetero\/status\/1286498270118903813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Kamalingin (@kampetero) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camels cross an empty paved highway through dry scrubland on the road to Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia. The poster recalled the 2018 trip when sharing it in July 2020. Camels cross an empty paved highway through dry scrubland on the road to Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia. The poster recalled the 2018 trip when\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5260,"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":[2696],"tags":[2868,2888,108,2889,1661,2140],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places","tag-camels","tag-dire-dawa","tag-ethiopia","tag-highways","tag-landscape","tag-roads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/camels-crossing-the-highway-near-dire-dawa.jpg?fit=2048%2C996&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","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=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}