{"id":76,"date":"2017-06-15T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgoyneandburgoynepublishers.com\/wp2\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:21:05","slug":"into-the-okavango","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/into-the-okavango\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Okavango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #730000;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<strong>T<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>ake an African safari with us!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Into the Okavango: The Africa Poems and Photographs <\/i>(ISBN 0-9742183-0-8) is a 216-page, 92-poem, 500-photograph, 12 x 13 inch adventure, taking its readers on twenty-three days of safaris through Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, detailing first encounters with elephants, cheetahs, lions, leopards, hippopotamuses, crocodiles, and more.\u00a0 The photographers feature Victoria Falls and Cape Point by helicopter.\u00a0 As the safaris get more dangerous, the camps more remote, the poet embarks on a darker, shadow journey to the sad, painful secrets of her soul, not often visited.\u00a0 There, in the small, dark section of the poems (Cutty Sark), she confronts a childhood tragedy and its lifelong consequence.\u00a0 Rounding Cape Point by helicopter proves to be a triumphant catharsis for the poet. [<a href=\"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/into-the-okavango\/\">More&#8230;<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Take an African safari with us! Into the Okavango: The Africa Poems and Photographs (ISBN 0-9742183-0-8) is a 216-page, 92-poem, 500-photograph, 12 x 13 inch adventure, taking its readers on twenty-three days of safaris through Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, detailing first encounters with elephants, cheetahs, lions, leopards, hippopotamuses, crocodiles, and more.\u00a0 The photographers feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgtechnohub.com\/burgoyne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}