{"id":79,"date":"2003-11-26T03:35:06","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T08:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=79"},"modified":"2005-12-04T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T16:35:27","slug":"no-beef-with-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-beef-with-wellington","title":{"rendered":"No Beef with Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cut me some slack; I&#8217;m buzzed and I can&#8217;t come up with any good puns. We drove most of the day, in cold rain, to get from Rotorua to Wellington. The terrain&#8217;s absolutely gorgeous. Can&#8217;t wait to share some pix with you, via one of my wacky slideshows (the captions will likely be as dumb as this entry&#8217;s header).<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s off to Nelson, on the South Island, via a lengthy ferry ride. The day after&#8217;s a lengthy hike in the Abel Tasman reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Tasman, I just found a first edition (Australian) hardcover of Richard Flanagan&#8217;s great novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802139590\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Gould&#8217;s Book of Fish<\/a><\/em>. Happy Hanukkah, Gil!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m such a geek&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/sets\/1434128\/\" target=\"_blank\">(My New Zealand pix via Flickr)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cut me some slack; I&#8217;m buzzed and I can&#8217;t come up with any good puns. We drove most of the day, in cold rain, to get from Rotorua to Wellington. The terrain&#8217;s absolutely gorgeous. Can&#8217;t wait to share some pix with you, via one of my wacky slideshows (the captions will likely be as dumb &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-beef-with-wellington\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Beef with Wellington&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/correction","url_meta":{"origin":79,"position":0},"title":"Correction","author":"Gil","date":"November 28, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Turns out the ferry was to Picton, through the Marlborough Sound, which was the eeriest experience I've ever had. 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