{"id":39355,"date":"2010-10-26T06:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=39355"},"modified":"2010-10-26T06:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:08:29","slug":"voyaging-canoe-hokulea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=39355","title":{"rendered":"Voyaging Canoe Hokulea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hokule\u00ca\u00bba is a replica of a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe (wa\u00ca\u00bba kaulua). It was built by the Polynesian Voyaging Society to promote the cultural revitalization of Hawaiians, and support the theory of Polynesians as masterful navigators in the Pacific. A year after Hokule\u00ca\u00bba was launched in 1975, she voyaged from Hawaii to Tahiti and back without the use of modern navigational instruments. Since that voyage, Hokule\u00ca\u00bba has completed nine more voyages to Micronesia, Polynesia, Japan, Canada, and the United States, all using ancient wayfinding techniques of celestial navigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To simulate a voyaging canoe in shape, weight, and performance, archaeologists, maritime historians, and anthropologists collaborated on the design. Hokule\u00ca\u00bba has\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/directoryofkauai.net\/blog\/voyaging-canoe-hokulea\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hokule\u00ca\u00bba is a replica of a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe (wa\u00ca\u00bba kaulua). It was built by the Polynesian Voyaging Society to promote the cultural revitalization of Hawaiians, and support the theory of Polynesians as masterful navigators in the Pacific. A year after Hokule\u00ca\u00bba was launched in 1975, she voyaged from Hawaii to Tahiti and back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39355","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\/39355","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=39355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39356,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions\/39356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}