{"id":29500,"date":"2017-12-06T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29500"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:32:07","slug":"the-round-the-world-canoe-trip-that-changed-this-mans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/12\/the-round-the-world-canoe-trip-that-changed-this-mans-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Round-the-World Canoe Trip That Changed This Man\u2019s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to heroes, David Komine picked a great one: Polynesian Voyaging Society president and <em>Coastal Living<\/em> Ocean Hero Nainoa Thompson. Here&#8217;s his story.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of years ago, double-hulled canoes traversed the seas of modern-day Polynesia, crewed by voyagers able to navigate through open ocean without instruments\u00a0using the stars, the sun, ocean currents, and other natural elements. These travelers, as part of the Polynesian migration, helped colonize the Pacific\u2014including the islands of Hawai\u2018i.<\/p>\n<p>These canoes disappeared more than 600 years ago. And then, in 1976, a deep sea voyaging canoe built in the tradition of these ancient vessels sailed from Hawai\u2018i to Tahiti. The canoe was named\u00a0<em>H\u014dk\u016ble\u2018a<\/em>,\u00a0\u201cStar of Gladness,\u201d and it inspired a whole new generation of modern wayfinders and voyagers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastalliving.com\/lifestyle\/the-environment\/hokulea-voyage-david-komine\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to heroes, David Komine picked a great one: Polynesian Voyaging Society president and Coastal Living Ocean Hero Nainoa Thompson. Here&#8217;s his story. Hundreds of years ago, double-hulled canoes traversed the seas of modern-day Polynesia, crewed by voyagers able to navigate through open ocean without instruments\u00a0using the stars, the sun, ocean currents, and other natural elements. These travelers, as part of the Polynesian migration, helped colonize the Pacific\u2014including the islands of Hawai\u2018i. These canoes disappeared more than 600 years ago. And then, in 1976, a deep sea voyaging canoe built in the tradition of these ancient vessels sailed from Hawai\u2018i to Tahiti. The canoe was named\u00a0H\u014dk\u016ble\u2018a,\u00a0\u201cStar of Gladness,\u201d and it inspired a whole new generation of modern wayfinders and voyagers. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29500"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29502,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29500\/revisions\/29502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}