{"id":1150,"date":"2019-05-19T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyandarua.com\/home\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2020-05-10T20:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:32:40","slug":"returning-home-wet-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyandarua.com\/home\/returning-home-wet-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Home: Wet Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block pg-opt box-content\">\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Woe unto you if you came home during the rainy season. We all knew the rain patterns of OlKalou.\u00a0 The rain usually started falling in the late afternoon, the likely time of your arrival from Nairobi, and we knew it did not stop until the next morning. 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