{"id":13934,"date":"2011-07-11T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/antarctica-frozen-folly-2\/"},"modified":"2011-07-11T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T00:46:00","slug":"antarctica-frozen-folly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/07\/antarctica-frozen-folly-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica: Frozen Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruisepassenger.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Cruises_East.Antarctica.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cruisepassenger.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Cruises_East.Antarctica.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>A trip to East Antarctica is anything but a walk in the park. Our Adventure Cruise Guide editor follows gingerly in the footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson. Words &#038; Photos: Roderick Eime<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond the Roaring Forties there are the Furious Fifties and Shrieking Sixties, for the storms that ravage these regions become more and more severe as one proceeds further south.\u201d \u2013 Herbert Ponting, 1921<\/p>\n<p>Who in their right mind would willingly subject themself to this kind of discomfort? And to call a voyage to Antarctica a \u2018cruise\u2019\u2013 especially if you\u2019re venturing beyond 70 degrees south \u2013 is a serious misrepresentation.<\/p>\n<p>If your idea of a cruise is sitting on a deckchair beside a pool with a pina colada in one hand and a Jackie Collins potboiler in the other, read no further. Deep Antarctica is one of those places, like the moon, that is just so distant and unreachable that to travel there is almost the stuff of fiction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruisepassenger.com.au\/frozen-folly\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to East Antarctica is anything but a walk in the park. Our Adventure Cruise Guide editor follows gingerly in the footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson. Words &#038; Photos: Roderick Eime \u201cBeyond the Roaring Forties there are the Furious Fifties and Shrieking Sixties, for the storms that ravage these regions become more and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[345,332],"class_list":["post-13934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cruise-passenger-magzine","tag-heritage-expeditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}