{"id":89510,"date":"2014-01-21T20:51:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T03:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89510"},"modified":"2014-01-21T20:53:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T03:53:52","slug":"hokulea-getting-ready-for-the-voyage-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89510","title":{"rendered":"Hokule\u2018a \u2013 Getting Ready for the Voyage of a Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last May, I wrote about the Polynesian Voyaging Society\u2019s plan to sail around the world on the storied Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokule\u2018a. \u00a0What\u2019s even more incredible than the sail plan is that this voyage \u2013 which spans 5 years \u2013 will be done almost entirely using traditional Polynesian navigation methods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This knowledge, otherwise known as \u2018wayfinding\u2019, involves the use of only one\u2019s natural surroundings (stars, clouds waves, wind, etc) to guide them. \u00a0Needless to say, a voyage like this has\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2014\/01\/21\/hokulea-getting-ready-for-the-voyage-of-a-lifetime\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Last May, I wrote about the Polynesian Voyaging Society\u2019s plan to sail around the world on the storied Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokule\u2018a. \u00a0What\u2019s even more incredible than the sail plan is that this voyage \u2013 which spans 5 years \u2013 will be done almost entirely using traditional Polynesian navigation methods. This knowledge, otherwise known as [&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-89510","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\/89510","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=89510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89512,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89510\/revisions\/89512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}