{"id":4571,"date":"2012-08-27T20:13:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T03:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2015-09-30T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:49:50","slug":"preparing-for-the-kayak-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/08\/27\/preparing-for-the-kayak-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the Kayak of Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron and I are doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/outfitterskauai.com\/na-pali-cave-sea-kayak.php\">seventeen mile kayak along the Napali Coast<\/a> tomorrow, so if there are no further journal entries after this one, that&#8217;s the place to tell the rescuers to start searching for bodies.<\/p>\n<p>After plunking down deposits for tomorrow&#8217;s eight hour death march we did a snorkel in murky, turbulent waters and followed that up with three trips down the hotel&#8217;s water slide &#8211; surprisingly a request from two grown men for the wristbands that allow repeat trips down the slide did not elicit even a raised eyebrow from the hotel staff, so they&#8217;re either really well trained or we weren&#8217;t the only ones who appreciated the mad g-forces on the turns.  After the watersports Ma and Pa joined us for sunset and a few chases of the local chickens before we headed to bed at the late hour of 8PM.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/0646-kauai-sunset.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Sunset in Kauai\" class=\"img-main\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Sunset in Kauai.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron and I are doing a seventeen mile kayak along the Napali Coast tomorrow, so if there are no further journal entries after this one, that&#8217;s the place to tell the rescuers to start searching for bodies. After plunking down deposits for tomorrow&#8217;s eight hour death march we did a snorkel in murky, turbulent waters &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/08\/27\/preparing-for-the-kayak-of-doom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing for the Kayak of Doom&#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":[34,16,30],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-family","tag-hawaii","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","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=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}