{"id":174,"date":"2008-05-15T07:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T06:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/05\/15\/shearing-capital-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T07:55:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T06:55:36","slug":"shearing-capital-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/05\/15\/shearing-capital-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Shearing capital of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1080244.JPG\"><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the Aussies might have something to say about Te Kuiti&#8217;s self-prolaimed title of sheep shearing capital of the world. However, we&#8217;ve learnt that the Kiwis are good at forgetting other parts of the world, the &#8220;most easterly point&#8221; and &#8220;see the sunrise first&#8221; claims of East Cape conveniently forget about Fiji and Siberia that straddle the international date line. Te Kuiti does have a quite impressive 7 metre tall statue of a sheap shearer, which must be hard to match.<br \/>\nOur journey today took us to a remnant forest of kahikatea, New Zealands tallest tree. Most have been chopped down to make butter boxes which is a shame as their moss covered buttress roots make for an enchanted forest feel. There was also a stop at Karangahake, an old gold mining town, topped off by the 1km disused railway tunnel walk, that&#8217;s a long way to go in the dark!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure the Aussies might have something to say about Te Kuiti&#8217;s self-prolaimed title of sheep shearing capital of the world. However, we&#8217;ve learnt that the Kiwis are good at forgetting other parts of the world, the &#8220;most easterly point&#8221; and &#8220;see the sunrise first&#8221; claims of East Cape conveniently forget about Fiji and Siberia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/05\/15\/shearing-capital-of-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shearing capital of the World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}