{"id":27964,"date":"2026-02-20T21:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/?p=27964"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:54:23","slug":"this-giraffe-left-photographer-speechless-then-sad-truth-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/?p=27964","title":{"rendered":"This giraffe left photographer speechless, then sad truth is revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most people celebrating their 40th anniversary might opt for a cruise or a beach getaway \u2014 but for South African couple Marius and Michelle Nortje, nothing beats a trip to the wild.Their love story, already four decades strong, was about to take an unforgettable turn deep inside Kruger National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What started as a routine drive turned into a moment the couple \u2014 and soon the internet \u2014 would never forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe go at least once a year, but sometimes as much as four times,\u201d Marius said in an interview with The Citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But during their anniversary trip this past December, something extraordinary emerged from the bush: three giraffes. And one of them was unlike anything Marius, a seasoned wildlife photographer, had ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Most people celebrating their 40th anniversary might opt for a cruise or a beach getaway \u2014 but for South African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27967,"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964\/revisions\/27967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypuppies.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}