{"id":691,"date":"2016-02-25T01:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/?p=691"},"modified":"2016-02-25T01:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:34:29","slug":"waiheke-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/waiheke-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiheke Island&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a rest day &#8212; I got to sleep in until 8:30, which was heavenly. We got up and walked along the beach at the base of the hill below the Friends&#8217; Meetinghouse, and then met Quakers for lunch. Here&#8217;s the beach at the base of the hill:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/p2242533.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/p2242533.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe had another lovely potluck with members and attenders of Waiheke Friends Meeting, and talked some about New Zealand and US politics before settling in for worship. There was a gentleman from Wales also joining us, so it was a multi-national gathering!<\/p>\n<p>Then we came back to the Friends Meetinghouse and snoozed in the afternoon warmth for a couple of hours, reading and napping before going to Charley Farley&#8217;s for dinner. We had the salt and pepper squid with a zucchini-halloumi appetizer, which didn&#8217;t really taste of halloumi, but that&#8217;s OK. After that we went around the northeastern part of the island on an unimproved road and saw some lovely things just before sunset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/p2242546.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/p2242546.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/p2242547.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/p2242547.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we rise early for the ferry before heading north, to the North Cape and Cape Reinga.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a rest day &#8212; I got to sleep in until 8:30, which was heavenly. We got up and walked along the beach at the base of the hill below the Friends&#8217; Meetinghouse, and then met Quakers for lunch. Here&#8217;s the beach at the base of the hill: &nbsp;&nbsp; We had another lovely potluck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/waiheke-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiheke Island&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}