{"id":22355,"date":"2014-12-05T02:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.denis-katzer.de\/strange-call\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:02:17","slug":"strange-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/strange-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bimbah-Camp &#8211; 07.11.2002<\/p>\n<p>During further route planning, I found out that some of the stock routes were closed. Due to the drought, the government can no longer guarantee sufficient food in these regions. For this reason, I try to call the relevant authorities to get a permit for us. After a few phone calls, I am referred back to the Department of Primary Industries. As the inspector who examined our animals a few days ago didn&#8217;t bring us the promised transport permit, I took the opportunity to call him straight away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello, it&#8217;s me, Denis the camel man. Can you still remember me?&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; it answers coldly. That uneasy feeling creeps up on me again. &#8220;I just wanted to ask if there are any conditions for us to go on a closed stock route?&#8221; &#8220;No. This ban only applies to professional cattle drives.&#8221; &#8220;Ah, very good. Just one more question?&#8221; I say, so as not to steal too much time from the apparently very busy man. &#8220;Do we need that transport permit you told us about or not?&#8221; Suddenly the voice becomes very friendly again. &#8220;Where are you at the moment?&#8221; &#8220;At Bimbah Station.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ll bring you the permit tomorrow. Is 08:30 okay with you?&#8221; &#8220;But of course. Thank you very much. See you tomorrow then,&#8221; I reply and end the call. I sit on the phone for a while and wonder why such a busy inspector is bothering to bring us the transport documents in person. Somehow I don&#8217;t want to believe that he is doing this for purely friendly reasons. Does he have any further questions? Is the case still not closed? I tell Tanja about the strange phone call. We talk about it for a while, but can&#8217;t make any sense of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bimbah-Camp &#8211; 07.11.2002 During further route planning, I found out that some of the stock routes were closed. Due to the drought, the government can no longer guarantee sufficient food in these regions. For this reason, I try to call the relevant authorities to get a permit for us. After a few phone calls, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-earth-expedition-stage-3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23610,"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355\/revisions\/23610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denis-katzer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}