{"id":1041,"date":"2017-07-08T22:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2017-07-08T22:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T10:00:33","slug":"te-motu-piu-dog-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Te Motu Piu \/ Dog Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3354-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1042 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3354-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3354-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3354-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3354-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3354-2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a>I have always been fascinated with NZ lighthouses (in fact I have done a series of works on plates of lighthouses which included the unique light flickering sequence and number of each one).<\/p>\n<p>My favourite light house has always been Te Motu Piu \/ Dog Island which is also the tallest one in NZ.\u00a0 It was originally made from rock quarried on the island (which is quite small) but as it developed a lean over the years it was concreted over.\u00a0\u00a0 I was fortunate to be offered a trip to Te Motu Piu on a cool 1959 motor launch, vintage is always a passion, and had a marvellous day painting!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3366-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3366-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3366-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3366-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3366-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3366-2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was remindeed of the difficulties of getting wet canvases on and off boats.\u00a0 Thanks Rawiri!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3374-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3374-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3374-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3374-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3374-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCF3374-2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been fascinated with NZ lighthouses (in fact I have done a series of works on plates of lighthouses which included the unique light flickering sequence and number of each one). My favourite light house has always been Te Motu Piu \/ Dog Island which is also the tallest one in NZ.\u00a0 It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?p=1041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Te Motu Piu \/ Dog Island&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}