{"id":1335,"date":"2013-03-24T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T08:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:44","slug":"1335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/new-zealand\/1335","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Bowling Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/murraygunn\/8585379454\/in\/photostream\" title=\"a bowling green in a club\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8096\/8585379454_3344cb26d3_z.jpg\" class=\"g2image_float_left\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>The following experience may not be typical for clubs in New Zealand, but it&#8217;s different enough to be worth noting. Fiona and I came to NZ for a wedding and are now enjoying travel for its own sake. Tonight we decided to eat in a local club, hoping to see locals in their native habitat. Being an ex-servicemen&#8217;s club, the client\u00c3\u00a8le were elderly, and we were lucky to see them enjoying a game of bowls.<\/p>\n<p>I should explain that unlike the rambling clubs I&#8217;m used to in Australia, the club at Paihia is one large hall, split out into an area for pool tables, an open floor and a mezzanine eatery. Today, the floor was host to a long mat rolled out to create a bowls green that seemed to satisfy the local men.<\/p>\n<p>The last difference we noticed was that patrons chose a glass of their preferred size from the fridge, then asked the barman to pour their preferred drink. We assume that the cost varies depending on which glass is chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we embark on an all-day cultural tour of the Bay of Islands, including visiting a Maori village. I&#8217;m not expecting the true experience, but we don&#8217;t have time for anthropology this trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following experience may not be typical for clubs in New Zealand, but it&#8217;s different enough to be worth noting. Fiona and I came to NZ for a wedding and are now enjoying travel for its own sake. Tonight we decided to eat in a local club, hoping to see locals in their native habitat.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/new-zealand\/1335\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indoor Bowling Green<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}