{"id":3578,"date":"2011-12-25T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2011-12-25T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T08:18:00","slug":"hooked-on-paradise-png-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/12\/hooked-on-paradise-png-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooked on paradise: PNG cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources1.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/12\/22\/1226228\/435333-png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/resources1.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/12\/22\/1226228\/435333-png.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>SHOCK set in the moment my fishing guide Ben locked a look of horror on me after frantically grasping the fishing line.<\/p>\n<p>One of six large hooks on the popper lure had pierced straight through the side of my left hand.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been barbed by a barracuda!<\/p>\n<p>And that barracuda, with protruding needle-like teeth and one large peeper firmly fixed on mine, was about to have the last laugh after our five-minute fight by delivering another of its trademark aggressive thrashes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/holiday-ideas\/hooked-on-paradise-png-cruise\/story-e6frfqd9-1226228522152#ixzz1hcv5tT8F\">Read more<\/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>SHOCK set in the moment my fishing guide Ben locked a look of horror on me after frantically grasping the fishing line. One of six large hooks on the popper lure had pierced straight through the side of my left hand. I&#8217;d been barbed by a barracuda! And that barracuda, with protruding needle-like teeth and [&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":[328],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-true-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","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=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}