{"id":30273,"date":"2015-10-17T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30273"},"modified":"2015-10-16T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T09:31:29","slug":"whats-the-best-thing-about-living-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/whats-the-best-thing-about-living-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the best thing about living in New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor asked me this the other day &#8212; and I thought\u00a0 it was a pretty difficult question, since it&#8217;s always hard to &#8220;look in&#8221; objectively when you&#8217;re already &#8220;inside Middle Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/out-of-middle-earth-reality-imagination-new-zealands-landscape-influence-on-the-wall-of-night-world\/lindispass\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13510\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lindispass-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"lindispass\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lindispass-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lindispass.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>So there&#8217;s that for starters&#8212;living in the country that Sir Peter Jackson has transformed into JRR Tolkien&#8217;s Middle Earth. And there is still a lot of open space, compared to other countries I&#8217;ve visited\u2014areas where you can drive for miles and not see another person, or a house. I really like that.<\/p>\n<p>But because NZ is long and narrow, even really remote places are never <em>that<\/em> far away. For example, the location of Edoras, in <strong>The Lord of the Rings<\/strong>&#8216; films, wouldn&#8217;t be more than a couple of hours drive from Christchurch, where I live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor asked me this the other day &#8212; and I thought\u00a0 it was a pretty difficult question, since it&#8217;s always hard to &#8220;look in&#8221; objectively when you&#8217;re already &#8220;inside Middle Earth.&#8221; So there&#8217;s that for starters&#8212;living in the country that Sir Peter Jackson has transformed into JRR Tolkien&#8217;s Middle Earth. And there is still [&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-30273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30273","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=30273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30275,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30273\/revisions\/30275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}