{"id":13400,"date":"2021-02-08T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/?post_type=phort_post&#038;p=13400"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:17:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T01:17:31","slug":"mount-cook-vistas","status":"publish","type":"phort_post","link":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/portfolio\/mount-cook-vistas\/","title":{"rendered":"MOUNT COOK VISTAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Aoraki \/ Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It lies in the Southern Alps \/ K\u0101 Tiritiri o te Moana, the mountain range which runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aoraki Mount Cook National Park is home of the highest mountains and the longest glaciers. It is alpine in the purest sense &#8211; with skyscraping peaks, glaciers and permanent snow fields, all set under a star-studded sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">According to Ng\u0101i Tahu legend, Aoraki and his three brothers were the sons of Rakinui, the Sky Father. While on a sea voyage, their canoe overturned on a reef. When the brothers climbed on top of their canoe, the freezing south wind turned them to stone. The canoe became the South Island (Te Waka o Aoraki); Aoraki and his brothers became the peaks of the Southern Alps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aoraki \/ Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It lies in the Southern Alps \/ K\u0101 Tiritiri o te Moana, the mountain range which runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, Aoraki Mount Cook National Park is home of the highest mountains and the longest glaciers. It is alpine in the purest sense &#8211; with skyscraping peaks, glaciers and permanent snow fields, all set under a star-studded sky. According to Ng\u0101i Tahu legend,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13488,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-13400","phort_post","type-phort_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","phort_post_category-mount-cook-vistas","phort_post_category-mountains-and-lakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phort_post\/13400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phort_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/phort_post"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}