{"id":20459,"date":"2014-06-11T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=20459"},"modified":"2014-06-27T03:32:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:32:20","slug":"anchoring-a-30-foot-kenyan-sailing-vessel-on-the-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2014\/06\/anchoring-a-30-foot-kenyan-sailing-vessel-on-the-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchoring a 30-Foot Kenyan Sailing Vessel on the Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dhows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dhows-1024x728.jpg\" alt=\"dhows\" width=\"620\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nestled in the Indian Ocean just off the northern coast of Kenya, the\u00a0isolated archipalegeo of Lamu\u00a0allows visitors to sail hundreds of years back into time.<\/p>\n<p>Lamu was the most conspicuous melting pot in East Africa in the 1800s, a place whose wealth reflected Swahili, Arab, Persian Indian and European influences. For centuries, its fortune largely rested on the\u00a0<em>dhow,<\/em>\u00a0a hand-hewn, wooden boat that skimmed the islands\u2019 shores. Monsoon winds carried the vessels, laden with gems, silks and spices, to harbors as far away as China and the Arabian Peninsula.\u00a0As a result, the far-flung Lamu became both an important port and a hotbed of cultural fusion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/why-smithsonian-folklife-festival-is-anchorning-30-foot-kenyan-sailing-vessel-mall-180951551\/?no-ist\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nestled in the Indian Ocean just off the northern coast of Kenya, the\u00a0isolated archipalegeo of Lamu\u00a0allows visitors to sail hundreds of years back into time. Lamu was the most conspicuous melting pot in East Africa in the 1800s, a place whose wealth reflected Swahili, Arab, Persian Indian and European influences. For centuries, its fortune largely rested on the\u00a0dhow,\u00a0a hand-hewn, wooden boat that skimmed the islands\u2019 shores. Monsoon winds carried the vessels, laden with gems, silks and spices, to harbors as far away as China and the Arabian Peninsula.\u00a0As a result, the far-flung Lamu became both an important port and a hotbed of cultural fusion. Read More \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}