{"id":1428,"date":"2009-07-10T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T06:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/10\/an_afternoon_on_the_earnslaw.html"},"modified":"2009-07-10T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T06:15:21","slug":"an_afternoon_on_the_earnslaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/10\/an_afternoon_on_the_earnslaw.html","title":{"rendered":"An afternoon on the Earnslaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #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<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/3708497655\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2511\/3708497655_778886dfaa.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\nDespite the fact that Aimee&#8217;s Christchurch friends labeled it a bit of an &#8220;old lady&#8221; sort of activity as far as Queenstown goes, we had a lovely time trundling around Lake Wakatipu aboard the 1912 steamer the TSS Earnslaw. We took the trip across to the Walter Peak Farm, and got a look at what it takes to run a high country farm, as well as a demonstration of the awesome skills of Storm, the farm&#8217;s short-haired border collie. We returned singing, as the on-board pianist led us all in some mostly American songs, mostly sung in French by the big group of Tahitian students on board. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s our last night in Queenstown, and our second to last here in New Zealand. I&#8217;ll be sad to leave both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that Aimee&#8217;s Christchurch friends labeled it a bit of an &#8220;old lady&#8221; sort of activity as far as Queenstown goes, we had a lovely time trundling around Lake Wakatipu aboard the 1912 steamer the TSS Earnslaw. We took the trip across to the Walter Peak Farm, and got a look at what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}