{"id":745,"date":"2011-06-08T21:44:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.landfood.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/?p=745"},"modified":"2011-06-08T21:44:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:44:01","slug":"745","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/2011\/06\/08\/745\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my own &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.landfood.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/2011\/05\/28\/another-kind-of-field-cred\/\">field cred<\/a>&#8221; moment today.<\/p>\n<p>We invited someone from the headquarters of the trading company we work with\/are a part of to do some training for our farmers the past few days. He&#8217;s one of the biggest heads in the country. He&#8217;s also super nice and supportive of our part of the company&#8217;s work. Unlike certain people at the office where I work at.<\/p>\n<p>The past two days, I think I surprised him quite a bit when I told him I travelled everywhere with a hired motorbike (bodaboda) or a public minibus (taxis), even after dark.<\/p>\n<p>He, in turn, surprised me by taking a public minibus (taxi) to our workshop today.<\/p>\n<p>He claims it&#8217;s because the roads yesterday were too bad and would damage his car.<\/p>\n<p>Secretly, I think he really just wanted to try it out. He seemed quite positive about the experience too. Plus he took a taxi back to the hotel also.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised that he, at his age and position, is so willing to try out the local transport. And the local food. He really is down-to-earth.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this to my Ugandan colleague. &#8220;It&#8217;s so nice that he doesn&#8217;t think he&#8217;s too good to try out the local way of life,&#8221; she agreed.<\/p>\n<p>I think I would like to be like that, as long as I live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my own &#8220;field cred&#8221; moment today. We invited someone from the headquarters of the trading company we work with\/are a part of to do some training for our farmers the past few days. He&#8217;s one of the biggest heads in the country. He&#8217;s also super nice and supportive of our part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,6372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}