{"id":292,"date":"2007-08-19T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaii.kadetstationery.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2012-06-06T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T19:46:46","slug":"sundays-travels-revisited-with-pictures-part-3-waimea-mauna-kea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Sunday\u2019s Travels, Revisited with Pictures, Part 3: Waimea &#038; Mauna Kea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we descended into Waimea, we came upon our next natural disaster of the trip&#8230;  another fire.  This one was only a small grass fire, only a few acres, probably less than 100, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/waimea11.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"waimea1\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was still smoldering, but it was 100% contained, and the fire department was letting it burn itself out by this point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/waimea21.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"waimea2\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/waimea31.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"waimea3\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marianne had to take this picture.  It was strange to see the cactus and fir trees side by side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/waimea41.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"waimea4\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sheep grazing on the hills, most likely part of the Parker Ranch, the largest and oldest ranch on Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/maunakea3.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"maunakea3\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautifully clear day in Waimea, and we could see all the way to the <br \/>top of Mauna Kea and see the observatory domes where our friend Tom works a few <br \/>times a year. Would love to go up there, but I don&rsquo;t thing our health conditions <br \/>are good enough for the 13,789 foot elevation\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we descended into Waimea, we came upon our next natural disaster of the trip&#8230; another fire. This one was only a small grass fire, only a few acres, probably less than 100, anyway. It was still smoldering, but it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=292\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigisland","category-hawaii-2007"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}