{"id":79,"date":"2014-07-10T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T11:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-07-14T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T08:32:36","slug":"australia-2-big-islands-make-you-feel-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Australia 2: Big islands make you feel small"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I did my presentation today, successfully, so I&#8217;ve earned my dinner. \u00a0So to speak&#8211; since my dinner consists of an extra sandwich I nabbed from the lunch buffet (they always seem to have three times too much food). \u00a0I think I&#8217;ll call it my last day of IIFET. \u00a0There are two more sessions tomorrow, but this is my only opportunity to see a bit more of Australia.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Australia, not surprisingly, is colossal. \u00a0For the dozens of reserves, sanctuaries, and national parks within striking distance, the town that marks the entrance to any proper rainforests or a visit to the reef is 29 hours away (same state though). \u00a0I&#8217;m torn between Moreton Island, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, and Mt. Coot-tha Reserve for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Yesterday, I hung out with the world record holder for circumnavigating the globe in the smallest vessel. \u00a0A couple years after doing this, he met his now-wife, who traveled South America with my aunt, trying to discover a solution to food security in the 1970s in the plant of amaranth. \u00a0We went to the Powermill, a gutted powerhouse that sat unused for years and now is an art-space and bar-restaurant complex. \u00a0Then to Farm Valley, famous for good restaurants for good Indonesian food, and the next door to much better gelato.<\/p>\n<p>I have some pictures (not many, not much sight-seeing), but my backpacker&#8217;s hostel net connection is not far from excruciating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did my presentation today, successfully, so I&#8217;ve earned my dinner. \u00a0So to speak&#8211; since my dinner consists of an extra sandwich I nabbed from the lunch buffet (they always seem to have three times too much food). \u00a0I think I&#8217;ll call it my last day of IIFET. \u00a0There are two more sessions tomorrow, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia 2: Big islands make you feel small<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12,11],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","tag-ifttt","tag-lj","tag-transience-divine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}