{"id":30873,"date":"2010-04-20T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30873"},"modified":"2010-04-20T21:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T04:00:47","slug":"polynesian-canoes-relive-epic-pacific-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30873","title":{"rendered":"Polynesian canoes relive epic Pacific migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-null\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Nearly 1,000 years after the last of the great Polynesian migration journeys across the Pacific, a group of descendants set sail in a fleet of replica canoes on Sunday to relive the voyages.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-null\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Four double-hulled canoes with crews of up to 16 people each departed from Auckland<span id=\"preLoadWrap1\" class=\"preLoadWrap\" style=\"position: relative;\"> <\/span>to sail 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) to the French Polynesian island of Raiatea.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-null\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Raiatea is believed to have been the departure point for the last great Polynesian migrations to New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island around 700 to 1,000 years ago\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/polynesian-canoes-relive-epic-pacific-migration-1948767.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;offerid=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><IMG alt=\"Logo_468x60\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nautica.com\/graphics\/promo\/NAU\/naut_logo_468x60.jpg\"><\/a><IMG border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;bids=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1,000 years after the last of the great Polynesian migration journeys across the Pacific, a group of descendants set sail in a fleet of replica canoes on Sunday to relive the voyages.\u00c2\u00a0 Four double-hulled canoes with crews of up to 16 people each departed from Auckland to sail 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30882,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873\/revisions\/30882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}