{"id":82,"date":"2010-07-19T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-10-23T13:25:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T23:25:24","slug":"a-day-at-the-gas-chambers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2010\/07\/19\/a-day-at-the-gas-chambers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day At The &ldquo;Gas Chambers&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After spending our first full day on the island making the obligatory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavasurfer.com\/info\/hikediamondhead.html\" target=\"_self\">hike<\/a> up to the Diamond Head crater (summary: good view! hot day!)\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-18-121857.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"2010-07-18 - 121857\" src=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-18-121857_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-07-18 - 121857\" width=\"1924\" height=\"1084\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2026we opted, on the next day, for some good old-fashioned body surfing. What could be finer?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We found a parking spot at the a beach called (though we knew not then) the Gas Chambers \u2013 just two beaches down from the Banzai beach, of Banzai <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aloha.com\/~lifeguards\/ehukai.html\" target=\"_self\">Pipeline<\/a> fame. Though the North Shore\u2019s truly gigantic waves are reserved for Winter, we all (having previously experienced only California\u2019s comparatively puny surf) had all we could handle with the Chambers\u2019 Summer offerings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-19-150812.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"2010-07-19 - 150812\" src=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-19-150812_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-07-19 - 150812\" width=\"1924\" height=\"1084\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-19-150825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"2010-07-19 - 150825\" src=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-19-150825_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-07-19 - 150825\" width=\"1924\" height=\"1084\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-19-152232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"2010-07-19 - 152232\" src=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-19-152232_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-07-19 - 152232\" width=\"1924\" height=\"1084\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looks like fun! And so it was\u2026but the fun was not without its costs. We returned bruised, battered, and sore \u2013 though, thankfully enough, not broken (at least, not in the physical sense o\u2019 the word).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One last pic. That\u2019s my older sister in there\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-19-150943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"2010-07-19 - 150943\" src=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-07-19-150943_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-07-19 - 150943\" width=\"1924\" height=\"1084\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2026and, yes, she lived to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending our first full day on the island making the obligatory hike up to the Diamond Head crater (summary: good view! hot day!)\u2026 \u2026we opted, on the next day, for some good old-fashioned body surfing. What could be finer? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2010\/07\/19\/a-day-at-the-gas-chambers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}