{"id":1444,"date":"2020-01-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T00:18:35","slug":"sumner-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/sumner-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumner Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Exciting day today &#8211; for months now I have been looking forward to seeing my friend Rhiannon. We trained together in the UK and then she came out to visit my friend Jo and I when we worked in New Zealand 20 years ago and she&#8217;s stayed ever since!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She came and found us at the holiday park and navigated us to Sumner Beach. That area had been cut off during the 2011 earthquake. There are still some houses perched up on the cliff that look very precarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a lovely lunch at the cafe on the beach and shared a few hours catching up together. Last time we met up was when we were in Christchurch 6 years ago &#8211; Rhiannon says Sam hasn&#8217;t changed, just got taller, but Martha of course is so very different from her 11 month self!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll look forward to seeing Rhiannon again when we return to Christchurch at the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"605\" height=\"806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1445\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/?attachment_id=1445\" class=\"wp-image-1445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-1.jpg 605w, http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"806\" height=\"605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1446\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/?attachment_id=1446\" class=\"wp-image-1446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-2.jpg 806w, http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"605\" height=\"806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1447\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-3.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/?attachment_id=1447\" class=\"wp-image-1447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-3.jpg 605w, http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-sumner-beach-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting day today &#8211; for months now I have been looking forward to seeing my friend Rhiannon. We trained together in the UK and then she came out to visit my friend Jo and I when we worked in New Zealand 20 years ago and she&#8217;s stayed ever since! She came and found us at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/sumner-beach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sumner Beach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}