{"id":185,"date":"2007-11-05T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/nukualofa-and-other-fish-tales\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:54","slug":"nukualofa-and-other-fish-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Nuku&#8217;alofa and other fish tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/1865079435\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2324\/1865079435_ee18eec18d_m.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/1865079435\/\">Nuku&#8217;alofa and other fish tales<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tWe are Nuku&#8217;alofa on the island of Tongatapu.  I am at<br \/>\nan internet cafe. We are planning to leave for new<br \/>\nZealand tomorrow afternoon.  We sailed here yesterday<br \/>\nfrom Kelesia and I caught 4 fish including a very<br \/>\nlarge tuna (16-18 pounds) and a dorado (mahi-mahi) of<br \/>\nabout the same size.  We fed 8 people yesterday with<br \/>\nthe fish and have about 12 adult size portions left.<br \/>\nThe picture has me with the dorado. More later.<\/p>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuku&#8217;alofa and other fish tales. We are Nuku&#8217;alofa on the island of Tongatapu. I am at an internet cafe. We are planning to leave for new Zealand tomorrow afternoon. We sailed here yesterday from Kelesia and I caught 4 fish including a very large tuna (16-18 pounds) and a dorado (mahi-mahi) of about the same &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nuku&#8217;alofa and other fish tales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-samoa-and-tonga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}