{"id":245,"date":"2006-12-29T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-12-29T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T00:00:14","slug":"summer-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/245","title":{"rendered":"Summer Sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather is improving &#8211; by which I mean getting more like a Sydney summer.  On Wednesday, I joined Damion (who&#8217;s back from Japan for Christmas) and his family on their yacht in Pittwater Bay.  The sun was fierce, yet tempered by the breeze, and the company great.  With nothing but a shorts, long cotton shirt and sandals, I accepted an invitation to stay with the young group on the boat for the night.  We spent a balmy evening cooking a BBQ over the stern railing and playing a Japanese card game in the cabin.  I sat alone on the deck reading as the next morning began clear and warm and thought of the watery life ahead in Sydney.  I&#8217;ll miss the mountains, but perhaps I can find solace in the nearby ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather is improving &#8211; by which I mean getting more like a Sydney summer. On Wednesday, I joined Damion (who&#8217;s back from Japan for Christmas) and his family on their yacht in Pittwater Bay. The sun was fierce, yet tempered by the breeze, and the company great. With nothing but a shorts, long cotton&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/245\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer Sailing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}