{"id":37635,"date":"2020-03-19T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=37635"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:45:15","slug":"sunrise-in-the-southern-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/03\/19\/sunrise-in-the-southern-hemisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise In The Southern Hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worldbuilding is central to the art and craft of writing Speculative* Fiction but it never pays to lose sight of the real world. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In this case the sun rises out of the Southern Ocean, which is part of the immensity of Te Moananui A Kiwa: the great ocean of Kiwa, aka the Pacific. In this case, the sunrise is off the east coast of New Zealand&#8217;s South Island (Te Wai Pounamu &#8212; The Waters of Greenstone), making it among the earliest places in the world to see the new day. The birds on the shingle banks are parekareka, the NZ spotted shag (a species of cormorant): scientific name <em>Stictocarbo punctatus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37641\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37641\" class=\"size-large wp-image-37641\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-13_Sunrise_Southern-Hemisphere-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-13_Sunrise_Southern-Hemisphere-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-13_Sunrise_Southern-Hemisphere-2-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-13_Sunrise_Southern-Hemisphere-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-13_Sunrise_Southern-Hemisphere-2.jpg 1071w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun rises out of the Southern Ocean&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A little bit of world and worldbuilding inspiration for all our weeks. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<pre>*Speculative Fiction: Although I would argue that all fiction is speculative, \r\nthe specific term is now applied to the literature of Science Fiction, \r\nFantasy and Horror in all its diversity and excellence.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldbuilding is central to the art and craft of writing Speculative* Fiction but it never pays to lose sight of the real world. \ud83d\ude42 In this case the sun rises out of the Southern Ocean, which is part of the immensity of Te Moananui A Kiwa: the great ocean of Kiwa, aka the Pacific. In [&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-37635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635","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=37635"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37646,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions\/37646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}