{"id":2359,"date":"2009-09-22T19:44:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2009-09-22T19:44:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T23:44:04","slug":"proud-to-be-a-kiwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/proud-to-be-a-kiwi\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud to be a kiwi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That’s right I am kiwi born & bred, that means I’m from New Zealand (for those who don’t know).<\/p>\n

I am proud to be a kiwi, taking my blog to the world and proud to live in Auckland (*cough* 4th equal best city in the world to live in<\/em>), New Zealand truly is an amazing place. ***<\/p>\n

Where did the term Kiwi come from? It comes from the native bird Kiwi<\/a> – also you may have heard of the Kiwifruit which is grown in New Zealand and marketed to the world (truth be told it originates from China but was cultivated here).<\/p>\n

\"mahurangi-beach-nz\"<\/a>

Mahurangi Beach just outside Auckland<\/p><\/div>\n

I was brought up in Otago, originally around Queenstown & Glenorchy. \u00a0Both of which happen to be my most favourite places in New Zealand – also known by tourists as scenes from Lord of the Rings haha.<\/p>\n

As I know most of my readers aren’t from New Zealand, I do invite you to come down, check it out, see what the gossip is. \u00a0In fact if you are coming through Auckland\u00a0email me and let’s have a pint, wine or coffee.<\/p>\n

If you are planning on doing so I suggest you check out AA Top 101 Destinations in New Zealand<\/a> – it was voted on by the locals and really does highlight the amazing stuff you can do here.<\/p>\n

*** Note I am incredibly beyond belief biased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s right I am kiwi born & bred, that means I’m from New Zealand (for those who don’t know). I am proud to be a kiwi, taking my blog to the world and proud to live in Auckland (*cough* 4th equal best city in the world to live in), New Zealand truly is an amazing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[124,681,842],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}