{"id":36228,"date":"2018-12-13T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36228"},"modified":"2018-12-09T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:35:41","slug":"wild-south-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/wild-south-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love living in the South Island of NZ with its &#8220;wild south&#8221; vibe, shared most recently in my post on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/11\/19\/inside-middle-earth-driving-to-edoras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Middle Earth:\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/11\/19\/inside-middle-earth-driving-to-edoras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Driving To Edoras<\/a> (yep, it&#8217;s also <strong>The Lord of the Rings<\/strong> country! \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, the intersection of ocean and river, wind and tide, waves and land, can be wild indeed, as in this photo where it&#8217;s all blended close to one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36230\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the second photo gives you some idea, usually there is a distinct river, ocean shoreline, and two shingle banks to be seen, not just the one above &#8212; and even that fast disappearing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36231\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-South-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The discoloration of the sea is the aftermath of the storm and flooding, and indicative of the level of shingle and runoff in the river&#8217;s journey from the mountains to the sea &#8212; which is pretty much how the Canterbury Plains formed, I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love living in the South Island of NZ with its &#8220;wild south&#8221; vibe, shared most recently in my post on Inside Middle Earth:\u00a0Driving To Edoras (yep, it&#8217;s also The Lord of the Rings country! \ud83d\ude09 ) Sometimes, though, the intersection of ocean and river, wind and tide, waves and land, can be wild indeed, [&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-36228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36228","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=36228"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36236,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36228\/revisions\/36236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}