{"id":2410,"date":"2015-11-26T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2018-06-05T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T00:23:09","slug":"des-peres-giraffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2410","title":{"rendered":"Des Peres Giraffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected find close to my sister&#8217;s house in Missouri. \u00a0Over breakfast on Thanksgiving Dave and Dale spoke about a giraffe nearby. \u00a0Was it larger than life? Would it count? We piled into Bob&#8217;s new F-150, 4&#215;4, with a crew cab and went in search. \u00a0We found it on N. Geyer, a few blocks south of Clayton. \u00a0It&#8217;s across from the Old Des Peres Church, one of the oldest churches west of the Mississippi. \u00a0Dave and Bob, avid geo-cachers, immediately went back home and created a cache to place under the watchful of Geoffrey. The giraffe is actually sitting in front of a private home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2412\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2412\" data-attachment-id=\"2412\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=2412\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?fit=1536%2C2048\" data-orig-size=\"1536,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1448535481&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00086730268863833&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Des Peres Giraffe\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;IMG_0818-0.jpg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Des Peres Giraffe&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?fit=145%2C193\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?fit=494%2C659\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2412\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"giraffe\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?resize=113%2C150 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?w=1536 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Des Peres Giraffe<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"img_container_40EDA306-3779-4969-B4C5-E42389B23EBC\" class=\"img_container\" data-failed=\"Tap to try again!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/var\/mobile\/Containers\/Data\/Application\/4FCB6E3F-5ED5-49CE-83FB-0DA27E478DDA\/Documents\/Media\/IMG_0818.JPG\" alt=\"\" data-wpid=\"40EDA306-3779-4969-B4C5-E42389B23EBC\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected find close to my sister&#8217;s house in Missouri. \u00a0Over breakfast on Thanksgiving Dave and Dale spoke about a giraffe nearby. \u00a0Was it larger than life? Would it count? We piled into Bob&#8217;s new F-150, 4&#215;4, with a crew cab and went in search. \u00a0We found it on N. Geyer, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2410\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":2412,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0818-0.jpg?fit=1536%2C2048","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-CS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}