{"id":11881,"date":"2015-03-06T04:05:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2015-03-06T04:05:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T09:05:40","slug":"some-things-ive-seen-in-new-zealand-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=11881","title":{"rendered":"Some Things I&#8217;ve seen in New Zealand, so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheep.<br \/>\nCows.<br \/>\nCattle.<br \/>\nA goat.<br \/>\nFour chickens.<br \/>\nThree <a title=\"Swamphens\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pukeko\" target=\"_blank\">Pukeko<\/a>.<br \/>\nA few black swans.<br \/>\nCanadian Geese.<br \/>\nBlack-back sea gulls.<br \/>\n<a title=\"little shag\" href=\"http:\/\/nzbirdsonline.org.nz\/species\/little-shag\" target=\"_blank\">Shag<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Myna\" href=\"http:\/\/nzbirdsonline.org.nz\/species\/common-myna\" target=\"_blank\">Myna<\/a>.<br \/>\nMore sheep.<br \/>\nMore Cows.<br \/>\nA lot of ocean!<br \/>\nNice walkways leading to beach with lovely park benches at strategic resting points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jackson-family-bench.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jackson-family-bench-1024x1024.jpg\" title=\"jackson family bench\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The House which overlooked this bench and the view from this bench.<br \/>\nPublic Loos &#8211; or toilets everywhere including a &#8220;<a title=\"Public Toilets and SuperLoo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taupodc.govt.nz\/our-services\/a-to-z\/Pages\/public-toilets.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Super Loo<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\nMany Roundabouts (rather than &#8220;yield&#8221; one is asked to &#8220;give way&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Lighthouse Cinema in Pauatahanui, NZ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousepauatahanui.co.nz\/about-the-cinema\/\" target=\"_blank\">A movie theater<\/a> with rows of couch-like seating for pairs and a beer and wine list as well as a proper cuppa or whatever else you might like. (We saw &#8220;The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel&#8221; and we gave it a thumbs up.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6276.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6276-768x1024.jpg\" title=\"comfy seating\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6275.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6275-768x1024.jpg\" title=\"proper cuppa\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6278.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6278-768x1024.jpg\" title=\"What&#039;ll you have?\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Concrete telephone\/wire poles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6283.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6283-768x1024.jpg\" title=\"Windy Day with Pole\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And some beer that looked back at me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6282.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6282-768x1024.jpg\" title=\"Here&#039;s looking at you!\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also seen some beautiful quilts and some beautiful modern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pataka.org.nz\/2014\/08\/robin-white-ruha-fifita\/\" title=\"Robin White &#038; Ruha Fifita - Tapa\" target=\"_blank\">Tapa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheep. Cows. Cattle. A goat. Four chickens. Three Pukeko. A few black swans. Canadian Geese. Black-back sea gulls. Shag. Myna. More sheep. More Cows. A lot of ocean! Nice walkways leading to beach with lovely park benches at strategic resting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=11881\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[329,169,160,327,550],"tags":[341,568,328,170],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-and-chickens","category-coffee-and-tea","category-films","category-journey-to-nz","category-lotr","tag-beer","tag-films","tag-journeytonz","tag-tea"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-35D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11897,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions\/11897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}