{"id":18085,"date":"2014-08-01T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/cruising-fiji-the-ultimate-disconnect\/"},"modified":"2014-08-01T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:42:00","slug":"cruising-fiji-the-ultimate-disconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/08\/cruising-fiji-the-ultimate-disconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruising Fiji: The ultimate disconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<span>#expeditioncruising <\/span> <\/p>\n<div>             <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Just cruising: Fulaga Lagoon.\" height=\"225\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2014\/07\/04\/5569530\/Trv-Fulaga-20Lagoon-20140704134134552413-620x349.jpg\" width=\"400\">                Just cruising: Fulaga Lagoon. <em>Photo: Katrina Lobley<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2014\/04\/07\/5329744\/Katrina-Lobley.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2014\/04\/07\/5329744\/Katrina-Lobley.jpg\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Katrina Lobley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>It took three years of negotiations over much kava before a cruise line could set sail for Fiji&#8217;s remote Lau islands, writes Katrina Lobley. <\/b><br \/>The few scraps I glean about Fiji&#8217;s 57 Lau islands, before cruising among them, come from travel writer Paul Theroux. In The Happy Isles of Oceania, Theroux describes the Lau group as &#8220;one of the pretty little star-clusters in the universe of Oceania&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div>\n<br \/>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/activity\/cruises\/cruising-fiji-the-ultimate-disconnect-20140703-3ba6n.html#ixzz3AubZh1Cx\">http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/activity\/cruises\/cruising-fiji-the-ultimate-disconnect-20140703-3ba6n.html#ixzz3AubZh1Cx<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#expeditioncruising Just cruising: Fulaga Lagoon. Photo: Katrina Lobley Katrina Lobley It took three years of negotiations over much kava before a cruise line could set sail for Fiji&#8217;s remote Lau islands, writes Katrina Lobley. The few scraps I glean about Fiji&#8217;s 57 Lau islands, before cruising among them, come from travel writer Paul Theroux. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-captain-cook-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085","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=18085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}