{"id":26553,"date":"2021-01-10T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/10\/sea-change-new-zealanders-take-to-the-water-as-covid-restricts-holiday-horizons-boats"},"modified":"2021-01-10T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:00:30","slug":"sea-change-new-zealanders-take-to-the-water-as-covid-restricts-holiday-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26553","title":{"rendered":"Sea change: New Zealanders take to the water as Covid restricts holiday horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boating boom hits as closed borders force New Zealanders to explore closer to home<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before the pandemic Bruce Goodchild split his time between Australia, his home country, and New Zealand\u2019s far north, where his work and family are based. When travel restrictions stopped him from skipping back and forth across the Tasman Sea, he decided to explore the waters closer to home \u2013 by buying a boat of his own.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Goodchild bought a 60ft-long wooden schooner. A keen sailor, he had had his eye on the local yacht market at the start of 2020, but the emergence of coronavirus focused his mind. \u201cI thought, \u2018I\u2019m stuck over here \u2013 this is a way I can spend my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/10\/sea-change-new-zealanders-take-to-the-water-as-covid-restricts-holiday-horizons-boats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boating boom hits as closed borders force New Zealanders to explore closer to homeCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBefore the pandemic Bruce Goodchild split his time between Australia, his home country, and New Zealand\u2019s far &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,1090,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-water-transport","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26556,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553\/revisions\/26556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}