{"id":932,"date":"2012-10-22T18:22:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T07:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ddixondotme.wordpress.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2012-10-22T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T07:22:42","slug":"niue-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"Niue Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121022-182316.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121022-182316.jpg\" alt=\"20121022-182316.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I sent a probe into my brain last Thursday, and the surge of brilliance encouraged me to get a flight to Auckland to visit my sister and brother. My appetite for self sabotage wasn&#8217;t balanced at all, and I needed to seek some refuge to get myself into calmer waters.<\/p>\n<p>The picture I took over the weekend is from a Niuean Festival I attended on my sisters invitation. It was a simple envelope, scribbled with a message from the Niuean Elderly women who attended. On it, it says, that I was awarded $20 for being a good dancer, and because they didn&#8217;t know my name, they referred to me as the &#8216;man with the white shirt&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this is how Michael Jackson felt when he was much much younger.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back in Sydney and the weather is no different to Auckland. The Rugby was a disappointing draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent a probe into my brain last Thursday, and the surge of brilliance encouraged me to get a flight to Auckland to visit my sister and brother. My appetite for self sabotage wasn&#8217;t balanced at all, and I needed to seek some refuge to get myself into calmer waters. The picture I took over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,20,57],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-cancer-and-back","tag-cancer","tag-dancing","tag-niue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}