{"id":3416,"date":"2010-07-21T18:15:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T22:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2010-07-21T18:15:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T22:15:51","slug":"the-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/the-gold-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gold Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced from the TEARA (New Zealand&#8217;s Encyclopedia) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teara.govt.nz\/en\/1966\/gold-discoveries\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Otago Gold Rushes<\/a>].:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; there were many rumours circulating about the doings of a digger named Fox, who was said to have \u201cstruck it rich\u201d somewhere in the Otago interior. Fox had, indeed, found gold on the Arrow on 9 October 1862. He managed to keep the location of his discovery quiet for a short time, but <strong>persistent rumours of a rich \u201cstrike\u201d attracted many diggers to the area<\/strong>. In November a further discovery in the Shotover Valley (near Queenstown) confirmed the existence of the Wakatipu field and by December there were 3,000 diggers working the two rivers. <strong>A month later there were 6,400 diggers <\/strong>in the district and several shanty towns had sprung into being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whenever a new opportunity opens up, there are a quick few who exploit it, then word gets out of the amazing find and it&#8217;s a gold rush.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hot, everyones chasing it, have you heard how much gold they got?!<\/p>\n<p>Reality is that by the time the Gold Rush is happening the realistic chance of you reaping the rumoured rewards are tiny. \u00a0Best to recognise a Gold Rush for what it is, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diffusion_of_innovations\" target=\"_blank\">the masses catching up with the innovators<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced from the TEARA (New Zealand&#8217;s Encyclopedia) [Otago Gold Rushes].: &#8220;&#8230; there were many rumours circulating about the doings of a digger named Fox, who was said to have \u201cstruck it rich\u201d somewhere in the Otago interior. Fox had, indeed, found gold on the Arrow on 9 October 1862. He managed to keep the location [&hellip;]<\/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":[378,551,630],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416"}],"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=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}