{"id":3471,"date":"2012-04-15T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2012-04-15T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:33:00","slug":"cultural-cruise-to-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/04\/cultural-cruise-to-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural cruise to Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources2.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/11\/19\/1226199\/977718-escape15.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/resources2.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/11\/19\/1226199\/977718-escape15.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>IT&#8217;S the friendliness of the people and their cultural richness that make a Fiji cruise so memorable, writes Sarah Mennie.<\/p>\n<p>AN OLD man rests in a sagging hammock, a blow dart in his hand. In front of a nearby thatched hut, a young woman sorts coconuts to be sold at market.<\/p>\n<p>Their village on Rabi Island, home to 15 people and a collection of pigs and chickens, is metres from a postcard-perfect beach. The smiles from the villagers are a reminder why Fijians are considered among the friendliest people in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/znfipad\/escape-storytemplate\/cultural-cruise-to-fiji\/story-fn6c8qmd-1226199977310\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story <\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?app_id=259616500730113&#038;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expeditioncruising.com%2F&#038;send=false&#038;layout=box_count&#038;width=450&#038;show_faces=true&#038;action=like&#038;colorscheme=light&#038;font&#038;height=90\" style=\"border: none; height: 90px; overflow: hidden; width: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&#8217;S the friendliness of the people and their cultural richness that make a Fiji cruise so memorable, writes Sarah Mennie. AN OLD man rests in a sagging hammock, a blow dart in his hand. In front of a nearby thatched hut, a young woman sorts coconuts to be sold at market. Their village on Rabi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[331],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-captain-cook-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","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=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}