{"id":50789,"date":"2011-06-18T09:09:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50789"},"modified":"2011-06-18T09:09:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:09:45","slug":"kon-tiki-explorer-was-partly-right-%e2%80%93-polynesians-had-south-american-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50789","title":{"rendered":"Kon-Tiki explorer was partly right \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Polynesians had South American roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thor Heyerdahl clung to Kon-Tiki, his balsa wood raft, for 4,300 miles to show that Polynesia could have been colonised from South America rather than Asia as commonly thought.<\/p>\n<div class=\"secondPar\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>But despite achieving his goal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sustaining his 101 day voyage with sharks caught with his bare hands \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Norwegian failed to sway the scientific community.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 64 years later- new research has finally proved\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/8582150\/Kon-Tiki-explorer-was-partly-right-Polynesians-had-South-American-roots.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thor Heyerdahl clung to Kon-Tiki, his balsa wood raft, for 4,300 miles to show that Polynesia could have been colonised from South America rather than Asia as commonly thought. But despite achieving his goal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sustaining his 101 day voyage with sharks caught with his bare hands \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Norwegian failed to sway the scientific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-misc","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789","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=50789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50791,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions\/50791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}