{"id":234,"date":"2012-06-29T13:46:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/zambia\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:26:39","slug":"village-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/2012\/06\/29\/village-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We got the chance to visit a real Zambian village!\u00a0 It was very difficult to get there.\u00a0 We had to drive over really rough roads for over 6 hours.\u00a0 In Zambia a lot of the roads are just dirt.\u00a0 In the wet season rain washes the roads out, making them muddy and very difficult to travel on.\u00a0 Most people in the villages do not have cars so they walk along the roads, sometimes for days!\u00a0 When we arrived at the village everyone was really excited to see us.\u00a0 The children were anxious to play games.\u00a0 We played soccer and other games with them.\u00a0 This is not just any ordinary village.\u00a0 This village has de\"\"<\/a>cided to use their way of life to attract tourism (and income) to this out-of-the-way corner of Zambia.\u00a0 The villagers are organized under their head-man (sort of like a mayor).\u00a0 The head-man coordinates with tourism outfitters throughout Zambia to bring in visitors.\u00a0 At the same time, the head-man organizes the villagers to build and maintain visitor huts, cook visitors food, and even provide entertainment (dancing and stories) for the visitors.\u00a0 While we were there we were able to see how people in the villages grow, harvest, and prepare their food, how families are organized, how huts are built, and lots of other interesting things.\u00a0 Children in these villages are a lot like children in the USA.\u00a0 They like to play games, spend time with their families and friends, and are very curious when they see things they are not used to!\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got the chance to visit a real Zambian village!\u00a0 It was very difficult to get there.\u00a0 We had to drive over really rough roads for over 6 hours.\u00a0 In Zambia a lot of the roads are just dirt.\u00a0 In the wet season rain washes the roads out, making them muddy and very difficult to… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 13:28:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}