{"id":524,"date":"2008-10-31T04:34:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:52","slug":"waiting-for-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tjibaou Cultural Center\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3005\/2985602607_bc3ddb9dd2.jpg\" alt=\"Tjibaou Cultural Center\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tjibaou Cultural Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>October 31, 2008<\/p>\n<p>We are still in Noumea, waiting for the right wind to blow us to Australia.  The forecast suggests we may be here for a least a few more days.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we went to the beautiful Tjibaou Cultural Centre which celebrates Kanak culture.<\/p>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sculpture, Tjibaou Cultural Center\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3230\/2985601173_1c83e5519d.jpg\" alt=\"Sculpture, Tjibaou Cultural Center\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculpture, Tjibaou Cultural Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sculpture, Tjibaou Cultural Center\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3207\/2986457948_03f0383ef6.jpg\" alt=\"Sculpture, Tjibaou Cultural Center\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculpture, Tjibaou Cultural Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 31, 2008 We are still in Noumea, waiting for the right wind to blow us to Australia. The forecast suggests we may be here for a least a few more days. Yesterday we went to the beautiful Tjibaou Cultural Centre which celebrates Kanak culture. M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcaledonia-2008","category-other"],"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\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}