{"id":2732,"date":"2022-07-25T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T08:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:19:55","slug":"holes-in-the-road-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/holes-in-the-road-sir\/","title":{"rendered":"Holes in the road sir."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">The potholes in the roads of Zambia are so bad most roads have more holes than tarmac. There is a Zambian joke that goes.<br \/>The minister for transport is out of town with his driver, they have to pull up at a big pothole and there is an animal head poking out the top. The minister says look there&#8217;s a dog in that one, The driver turns to him and says no minister that&#8217;s a giraffe.<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-post\"><br \/>Ta daaaa.<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-post\"><br \/>Yes they are that bad.<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Girraffe-in-pothole-Zambia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"824\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Girraffe-in-pothole-Zambia.jpg\" alt=\"potholes in zambia are so bad they will swallow a girrafe\" class=\"wp-image-2748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Girraffe-in-pothole-Zambia.jpg 824w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Girraffe-in-pothole-Zambia-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Girraffe-in-pothole-Zambia-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<!-- seo-africa-trip-nav:start -->\n<section class=\"seo-africa-trip-nav\" aria-label=\"East and Southern Africa trip navigation\">\n<h2>Kenya to South Africa trip: what to read next<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Previous stop: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/campfires-in-africa\/\">campfires in Africa<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Next stop: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/death-race-2000-safari-style\/\">Death Race 2000 Safari style<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Trip section: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/hello-zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Trip section: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/the-road-to-namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<!-- seo-africa-trip-nav:end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potholes in the roads of Zambia are so bad most roads have more holes than tarmac. There is a Zambian joke that goes.The minister for transport is out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}