{"id":24,"date":"2014-04-02T22:16:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ventanasvoyage.com\/africa\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2014-04-09T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T14:35:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ventanasvoyage.com\/africa\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>About Us<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rob and Dee Dubin spent 20 years making sports and travel documentary films all over the world for clients such as: ABC, The Travel Channel and ESPN.\u00a0 Retiring from the film business in 1995 the Dubins bought a 40\u2019 sailboat and spent the next 17 years sailing around the world.\u00a0 Their trip took them over 60,000 miles and visited nearly 100 countries. 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