{"id":27279,"date":"2014-11-15T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27279"},"modified":"2014-11-11T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:24:41","slug":"inside-middle-earth-west-coast-nikau-palms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/11\/15\/inside-middle-earth-west-coast-nikau-palms\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Middle Earth: West Coast Nikau Palms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me, nikau palms are an essential NZ (aka &#8220;Middle Earth&#8221; from the <strong><em>Lord Of The Rings<\/em><\/strong> films)&#8212;&amp; NZ West Coast&#8212;image.<\/p>\n<p>So much so, that they characterize my poem, <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/songs-from-the-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Songs From The Sea<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Songs from the sea sighing<\/em><br \/>\n<em> in beneath the spindrift to the land\u2019s<\/em><br \/>\n<em> curve, lying long beneath green bush<\/em><br \/>\n<em> where the nikau palms stand sentinel<\/em><br \/>\n<em> all along that shining margin<\/em><br \/>\n<em> between sea and land&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/11\/15\/inside-middle-earth-west-coast-nikau-palms\/nikau\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-27280\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nikau.jpg\" alt=\"Nikau\" width=\"505\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nikau.jpg 692w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nikau-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nikau-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, nikau palms are an essential NZ (aka &#8220;Middle Earth&#8221; from the Lord Of The Rings films)&#8212;&amp; NZ West Coast&#8212;image. So much so, that they characterize my poem, Songs From The Sea: &#8220;Songs from the sea sighing in beneath the spindrift to the land\u2019s curve, lying long beneath green bush where the nikau palms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27285,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279\/revisions\/27285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}