{"id":5210,"date":"2013-11-07T07:37:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2013-11-07T07:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:37:37","slug":"the-colours-of-new-zealand-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5210","title":{"rendered":"The colours of New Zealand &#8211; Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is a country just three hours&#8217; flight from my home, yet I had never been there till last week.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a gap in my travelling experience I was ashamed of when meeting New Zealanders in Europe!\u00a0 Well, now I can say I know something about NZ, and I can agree with all those who have told me it&#8217;s beautiful.\u00a0 I enjoyed finding particular scenes where one colour was dominant, and happily snapped a multitude of photos.<\/p>\n<p>I went with my husband, who&#8217;s been to NZ a few times before.\u00a0 Without me.\u00a0 Auckland was our first port of call, where I was struck by an inviting turquoise sea, streets lined with white houses, and a knockout red wrought iron fence.<\/p>\n<p>RED<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5338\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/07\/the-colours-of-new-zealand-auckland\/red-street-lamps-auckland-2\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5338\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5338 \" alt=\"Red street lamps, Port of Auckland, NZ\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/red-street-lamps-auckland1.jpg?w=750\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/red-street-lamps-auckland1.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/red-street-lamps-auckland1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/red-street-lamps-auckland1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/red-street-lamps-auckland1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/red-street-lamps-auckland1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red street lamps, Port of Auckland, NZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WHITE<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5235\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/07\/the-colours-of-new-zealand-auckland\/white-weatherboard-houses-auckland-nz\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5235 \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/white-weatherboard-houses-auckland-nz.jpg?w=750\" width=\"750\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/white-weatherboard-houses-auckland-nz.jpg 3555w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/white-weatherboard-houses-auckland-nz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/white-weatherboard-houses-auckland-nz-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/white-weatherboard-houses-auckland-nz-768x775.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/white-weatherboard-houses-auckland-nz-1015x1024.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/white-weatherboard-houses-auckland-nz-1200x1211.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White weatherboard houses with white fences under white clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TURQUOISE<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5266\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/07\/the-colours-of-new-zealand-auckland\/boat-auckland\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5266  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boat-auckland.jpg?w=750\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boat-auckland.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boat-auckland-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boat-auckland-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boat-auckland-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boat-auckland-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boats on a turquoise harbour, Auckland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is a country just three hours&#8217; flight from my home, yet I had never been there till last week.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a gap in my travelling experience I was ashamed of when meeting New Zealanders in Europe!\u00a0 Well, now I can say I know something about NZ, and I can agree with all those &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The colours of New Zealand &#8211; Auckland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[509,510,7,8,511,21,226],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-port-of-auckland","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}