{"id":459,"date":"2014-07-14T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2014-07-14T13:58:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:58:22","slug":"cradle-of-humankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/cradle-of-humankind\/","title":{"rendered":"cradle of humankind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday July 9th we moved back from Mahikeng to Johannesburg. On the way we visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gauteng.net\/cradleofhumankind\" target=\"_blank\">Cradle of Humankind <\/a>heritage site in the Gauteng province. It is actually a large area with many caves where an important, 2,3 million year old fossil named &#8220;Mr. Ples&#8221; was found as well as many other (even older) fossils. There is a beautiful building with a modern, clear explanation of evolution. You also get to visit one of the caves. There was warning that the passages where small and that you shouldn&#8217;t go if you have any kind of back problems. I guess they exaggerated a bit because it wasn&#8217;t all that bad.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_463\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleSafetyInstructions.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-463\" class=\"wp-image-463 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleSafetyInstructions.jpg\" alt=\"CradleSafetyInstructions\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleSafetyInstructions.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleSafetyInstructions-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleSafetyInstructions-160x120.jpg 160w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">safety instructions before entering the cave<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_462\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleLeigh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-image-462 size-full aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleLeigh.jpg\" alt=\"CradleLeigh\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleLeigh.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CradleLeigh-300x168.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leigh admiring the cave<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday July 9th we moved back from Mahikeng to Johannesburg. On the way we visited the Cradle of Humankind heritage site in the Gauteng province. It is actually a large area with many caves where an important, 2,3 million year old fossil named &#8220;Mr. Ples&#8221; was found as well as many other (even older) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}