{"id":1430,"date":"2007-10-28T22:11:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2009-04-12T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T06:01:49","slug":"1425-of-before-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"[1425] Of before you go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This subsiding weekend is one of few which routines were delightfully broken. I was at the Malaysian Nature Society-managed Kuala Selangor Nature Park to celebrate its <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1427\">20th anniversary<\/a> with friends.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed there and the accommodation was surprising comfortable given my initial expectation. I guess, if one had expected the worst, almost anything would surpass that expectation; I brought a sleeping bag with me but it was an unnecessary burden. Or maybe, I had a full day and I could hardly notice anything to complain about.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first activities were tree planting but several groups and one of them represented ExxonMobil. I am unsure how over a thousand sapling planted would offset Exxon&#8217;s carbon emissions but at least something, eh?<\/p>\n<p>There is a walkway from a man-made coastal bund into the mangrove swamp which the saplings were planted. Anybody that wishes to take a walk into the swamp via the walkway will notice this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/20071028MnsCode.jpg?resize=500%2C332&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Some rights reserved.\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will share more photos later but for now, I hate Monday; I should have taken my leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This subsiding weekend is one of few which routines were delightfully broken. I was at the Malaysian Nature Society-managed Kuala Selangor Nature Park to celebrate its 20th anniversary with friends. I stayed there and the accommodation was surprising comfortable given my initial expectation. I guess, if one had expected the worst, almost anything would surpass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,17],"tags":[447,128],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-environment","category-photography","tag-ksnp","tag-mns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}