{"id":897,"date":"2013-11-30T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T21:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2013-11-30T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T21:40:07","slug":"taranaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/taranaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Taranaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting my oldest kiwi friends Denise &#038; Ross (we met in California in 1999!) and their four kids is almost like coming home every time &#8211; when my bus arrived Monday night, they were waiting for me, the kids jumping up and down, screaming my name. It was so cool, especially considering that the youngest was only about a year old when I last saw her, but they&#8217;ve all completely embraced me as a family member that they just happen to see very rarely. A great way to start my time here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/11122654033\/\" title=\"Taranaki by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2888\/11122654033_9541559a1e_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"191\" alt=\"the kids at play\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denise also took the time out of her busy days to go for some lovely walks with me, allowing me to revel in the beauties of both New Zeland forest and sea. This country is simply so stunning, it takes my breath away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/11094053064\/\" title=\"Taranaki by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5541\/11094053064_3f96779eeb_n.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Taranaki - forest at Mt. Taranaki\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/11122532614\/\" title=\"Taranaki by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3742\/11122532614_3eeb8c1566_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Taranaki - the beach around New Plymouth\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find all my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/tags\/taranaki\/\" target=\"new\">Taranaki<\/a> photos here (not just this year&#8217;s but all of them), the photo set for this trip is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/sets\/72157637916084186\/with\/11122654033\/\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/11122484896\/\" title=\"Taranaki by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3669\/11122484896_f2fb28a25e_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"191\" alt=\"me at the Coastal Walkway\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be here until Monday morning, when I&#8217;ll catch the bus to Wellington. As much as I love it here in New Plymouth and with my friends, going to Wellington feels like going home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting my oldest kiwi friends Denise &#038; Ross (we met in California in 1999!) and their four kids is almost like coming home every time &#8211; when my bus arrived Monday night, they were waiting for me, the kids jumping up and down, screaming my name. It was so cool, especially considering that the youngest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/taranaki\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taranaki&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-nz","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}