{"id":3919,"date":"2016-03-02T23:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T06:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2016-03-02T23:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T06:48:44","slug":"marching-onward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=3919","title":{"rendered":"Marching Onward!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3920\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=3920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3920\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3920\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=3920\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1456383623&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00833333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4500\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sunrise at Haukilu Beach&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?fit=604%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3920\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sunrise at Hukilau Beach\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4500.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise at Hukilau Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve crossed the half-way point of this mission. Sunday, February 28th marked the eleven and one-half months of the mission with eleven and one half months to go. Time marches onward at seemingly faster and faster pace. From now we&#8217;ve less time here than we&#8217;ve been here.<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few things we want to do while we&#8217;re here on Oahu but haven&#8217;t done yet. Fortunately, we&#8217;ve got company coming in a week and a half and we&#8217;ll start doing some of those touristy things! Jared and Tania are coming over for a week and we are beyond excited to spend some time with them. So, we&#8217;ll be doing things like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kualoa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kualoa Ranch<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polynesia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polynesian Cultural Center<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pearlharboroahu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pearl Harbor<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dole-plantation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dole Plantation<\/a>, plus some quality beach time. This is going to be a fun time!<\/p>\n<p>Last post I put up a video of the Big Surf currently going on around here. A week later we went back out to Laie Point, took some video, and noticed (after I got home) that a Big Change had happened! The huge rock at the base of the hole in the big lava rock slab off shore had been blown out of the hole! So I&#8217;ve put up a brief before and after video on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Big Surf Updated\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G02dsdhZgZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had some serious surf. So much so that <a href=\"http:\/\/quiksilver.com\/surf\/events\/eddie-aikau\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Eddie<\/a> was held for the first time in about 9 years. The winner took home a $75,000 paycheck after riding down a huge 60 foot wave. Check the link for some fabulous video!<\/p>\n<p>Life is great but moving too fast &#8230; now we&#8217;re on the downhill slide of our time in this little corner of paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve crossed the half-way point of this mission. Sunday, February 28th marked the eleven and one-half months of the mission with eleven and one half months to go. Time marches onward at seemingly faster and faster pace. From now we&#8217;ve less time here than we&#8217;ve been here. There are quite a few things we want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=3919\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marching Onward!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-11d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3923,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}