{"id":3866,"date":"2011-03-19T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2011-03-19T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T02:42:00","slug":"expedition-cruise-line-gets-up-close-with-a-sepik-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/03\/expedition-cruise-line-gets-up-close-with-a-sepik-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Expedition cruise line gets up close with a Sepik village"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/03\/18\/1226023\/990371-bratton.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"237\" src=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/03\/18\/1226023\/990371-bratton.jpg\" width=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Sarina Bratton surrounded by Watam villagers. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>THE village of Watam on Papua New Guinea&#8217;s north coast isn&#8217;t easily found on a map.<\/p>\n<p>Accessible only by boat, it is barely a pinprick in the dense jungle through which the ice-blue Sepik River flows. Silt oozes from the river&#8217;s mouth into the Bismarck Sea like an exhalation on a frosty day.<\/p>\n<p>Here a group of latter-day adventurers lays anchor and goes ashore. The subsequent encounter &#8212; the first between the villagers of Watam and a group of Westerners &#8212; is anachronistic against a 21st-century backdrop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/travel\/expedition-cruise-line-gets-up-close-with-a-sepik-village\/story-e6frg8rf-1226022471403\">READ FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources.news.com.au\/cs\/australian\/images\/h1-logo.gif\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" src=\"http:\/\/resources.news.com.au\/cs\/australian\/images\/h1-logo.gif\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarina Bratton surrounded by Watam villagers. THE village of Watam on Papua New Guinea&#8217;s north coast isn&#8217;t easily found on a map. Accessible only by boat, it is barely a pinprick in the dense jungle through which the ice-blue Sepik River flows. Silt oozes from the river&#8217;s mouth into the Bismarck Sea like an exhalation [&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":[323],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-orion-expedition-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","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=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}