{"id":100,"date":"2007-11-25T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-08-03T21:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T21:40:51","slug":"dunedin-to-lake-takepo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Day 17 New Zealand &#8211; Dunedin to Lake Tekapo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[thumb:1505:l]Having had to trudge up the second steepest street in New Zealand I felt that I should atl least do the steepest street in the world whislt I was in Dunedin.\u00c2\u00a0 [newline]<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:1507:r]On the way to Lake Tekapo we had a stop off at the Moeraki boulders.\u00c2\u00a0 Weird spherical concreations that have formed in the mud over millions of years and that have now been exposed.[newline]<\/p>\n<p>Arrived at Lake Tekapo we found it was too windy to to go horseriding so I ended up walking round the lake for a bit with Cloe.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening I received a bit of education going up Mount John for some star gazing at the observatory.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally I realised why Orion looks weird in New Zealand; it&#8217;s upside down.\u00c2\u00a0 As well as that the Southern Cross was also upside down which is why I didn&#8217;t recognise it compared to the New Zealand flag.\u00c2\u00a0 It appears the simple solution would have been to stand on my head whilst I looked at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[thumb:1505:l]Having had to trudge up the second steepest street in New Zealand I felt that I should atl least do the steepest street in the world whislt I was in Dunedin.\u00c2\u00a0 [newline] [thumb:1507:r]On the way to Lake Tekapo we had a stop off at the Moeraki boulders.\u00c2\u00a0 Weird spherical concreations that have formed in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 17 New Zealand &#8211; Dunedin to Lake Tekapo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[57,29],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-holidays","tag-new-zealand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AfOo-1C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}