{"id":13260,"date":"2022-09-01T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2022-09-04T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:33:16","slug":"island-hopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2022\/09\/01\/island-hopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Hopping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, after waking up and feeding the koi with Audrey, I picked up Aaron and we snorkeled with the world&#8217;s friendliest butterflyfish and a tiny eel for just over an hour before heading back to the hotel for a trip down the lazy river, ten rides of the waterslide (the kids were mostly not upset to have to share with grownups), and a loop around the saltwater lagoon.  After failing to act our age all day I took Aaron home, and then the day finished with Audrey and me enjoying a fancy dinner at sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I got up to see the sunrise, came back to wake Audrey up for breakfast, and now we&#8217;re off for one last chance to feed the koi before heading to the airport for our next adventure after five excellent days in Kauai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Obb1BDLK-wA\" width=\"745\" height=\"419\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Underwater koi in Kauai.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after waking up and feeding the koi with Audrey, I picked up Aaron and we snorkeled with the world&#8217;s friendliest butterflyfish and a tiny eel for just over an hour before heading back to the hotel for a trip down the lazy river, ten rides of the waterslide (the kids were mostly not upset &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2022\/09\/01\/island-hopping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Island Hopping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,43],"class_list":["post-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-hawaii","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13264,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}