{"id":13594,"date":"2012-02-18T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/here-be-dragons-and-theyre-after-you-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T01:24:00","slug":"here-be-dragons-and-theyre-after-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/02\/here-be-dragons-and-theyre-after-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here be dragons, and they&#8217;re after you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/02\/16\/1226272\/696487-komodo.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/02\/16\/1226272\/696487-komodo.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>A TOUR of Indonesia&#8217;s spice islands brings a close encounter with a reptilian giant.<\/b> by Barry O&#8217;Brien, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/\">The Adelaide Advertiser<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A BIG beady eye fixed its gaze on me. Suddenly the long, powerful  tail started to twitch and the monstrous beast lifted to its full height  on razor-sharp, clawed feet. I was sitting on the ground near a water  hole trying to get a low-angle close-up shot of two Komodo dragons, side  by side in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d get up now sir,&#8221; our guide pleaded with  a hint of trepidation in his voice as he readied his stick to counter a  possible attack. When one of the reptiles moved towards me, its long,  white, forked tongue darting in and out, I didn&#8217;t drag my feet in  heeding his earnest warning.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier we&#8217;d been told how a bite  from these 3m monsters causes a painful death to their prey by infecting  them with poison. Only a couple of years ago a child was taken from a  village by a dragon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/ipad\/here-be-dragons-and-theyre-after-you\/story-fn3o6wog-1226272731797\">READ FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TOUR of Indonesia&#8217;s spice islands brings a close encounter with a reptilian giant. by Barry O&#8217;Brien, The Adelaide Advertiser A BIG beady eye fixed its gaze on me. Suddenly the long, powerful tail started to twitch and the monstrous beast lifted to its full height on razor-sharp, clawed feet. I was sitting on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323],"class_list":["post-13594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-orion-expedition-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}