{"id":624,"date":"2009-09-09T21:23:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/?p=624"},"modified":"2010-08-06T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T13:38:17","slug":"christchurch-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2009\/09\/09\/christchurch-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent the day in Christchurch today with Mel while Kim and Andrew went paragliding – too expensive for me! All we really did was wander around and I finally took a bunch of photos with my DSLR.<\/p>\n

So, on with the more “artistic” photos!<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the many water fountains in Christchurch. This one looked like dandelions, which I thought was rather pretty.<\/p>\n

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\nIn the Anglican cathedral is a life-sized memorial of the first bishop, Henry Harper.<\/p>\n

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\nThis was inscribed above the entry to Christchurch’s museum. <\/p>\n

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\nNice to see some colour again. A flower bed in Christchurch’s botanic garden.<\/p>\n

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\nA magnolia blossom.<\/p>\n

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\nQuack!!<\/p>\n

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\nA view of the city from the observation deck at the top of the gondala ride. It was quite hazy today so the photo isn’t the best.<\/p>\n

I can now say I’ve driven a car in a foreign country. It was my turn to drive and I have to say our hire car has the turning circle of a tank. Actually, I think some tanks can turn quite well so that could be a misleading statement. It’s a biggish car with a tiny little engine so it’s not the best drive. Which actually makes me sad because the highway from Christchurch to Methven has some wonderful twisty bits that would be so much fun in the right car. A Ford Mondeo is not it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spent the day in Christchurch today with Mel while Kim and Andrew went paragliding – too expensive for me! All we really did was wander around and I finally took a bunch of photos with my DSLR. So, on with the more “artistic” photos! One of the many water fountains in Christchurch. This one looked like dandelions, which I thought was rather pretty. In the …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[168,136,475],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}