{"id":75283,"date":"2025-11-22T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/22\/new-caledonia-sailor-reviving-traditional-canoe-building"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:00:24","slug":"the-sailor-reviving-the-lost-art-of-canoe-building-in-new-caledonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75283","title":{"rendered":"The sailor reviving the lost art of canoe building in New Caledonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of traditional boats made as part of a project to reconnect with culture and \u2018start of conversation\u2019 on ocean rights<\/p>\n<p>In October<strong> <\/strong>in Lifou island, a double-hulled canoe was pushed into the lagoon &#8211; a small act that marked a deeply symbolic moment.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first launch of a traditional canoe on Lifou in generations, an event that brought together the island\u2019s three chiefly clans in a rare show of unity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/22\/new-caledonia-sailor-reviving-traditional-canoe-building\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of traditional boats made as part of a project to reconnect with culture and \u2018start of conversation\u2019 on ocean rightsIn October in Lifou island, a double-hulled canoe was pushed into the lagoon &#8211; a small act that marked a deeply symbolic moment.I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4253,"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":[41,65,1102,467,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-caledonia","category-oceans","category-pacific-islands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75283","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\/4253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75284,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75283\/revisions\/75284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}