{"id":2195,"date":"2013-03-05T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2013-02-26T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T09:25:35","slug":"oamaru-capital-of-steampunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/oamaru-capital-of-steampunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Oamaru – capital of Steampunk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewhere along the way we had heard that Oamaru is a great little town. We could not remember why but we knew we wanted to pass by. Basically it is known for two things, Steampunk and penguins. The latter I don’t think needs much explaining but the first one might if you are as ignorant as me.<\/p>\n

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Yellow eyed penguin<\/p>\n

Steampunk<\/a> is a style with the slogan \u201cTomorrow as it used to be\u201d. It features steam powered machinery in a western 19th century setting. The style can be recognized from many movies (eg Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or Wild wild west), computer games and art work. Oamaru has a small museum dedicated to Steampunk, a playground and art work around the city in Steampunk style. Actually some of the people who live there look Steampunk. \ud83d\ude42 This in combination with the old Victorian style buildings is fantastic and creates a very special place.<\/p>\n

Have a look at the photos and see what you think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Somewhere along the way we had heard that Oamaru is a great little town. We could not remember why but we knew we wanted to pass by. Basically it is known for two things, Steampunk and penguins. The latter I don’t think needs much explaining but the first one might if you are as ignorant … Continue reading “Oamaru – capital of Steampunk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,59,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","category-featured","category-new-zealand","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}