{"id":1802,"date":"2012-05-24T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2012-05-24T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T11:03:56","slug":"onwards-and-upwards-the-ghans-final-leg-of-its-journey-to-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/onwards-and-upwards-the-ghans-final-leg-of-its-journey-to-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Onwards and Upwards the Ghan&#8217;s final leg of its journey  to Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Onwards and upwards<br \/>\nThe Ghan leaves Alice Springs<br \/>\nto find its way<br \/>\nUp into the outback<br \/>\nIts hot now everyday<br \/>\nthrough Tennant Creek<br \/>\nto Katherine<br \/>\nwhere termite mounds<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll see<br \/>\nthe Katherines River&#8217;s<br \/>\n13 gorges<br \/>\nthat is unlikely<br \/>\nacross the Adelaide River<br \/>\non a bridge that cost the earth<br \/>\nIt was finished 4 months earlier<br \/>\nthan the contract said, so worth<br \/>\na great deal for the river below it<br \/>\nlet me tell<br \/>\nis filled with &#8220;saltie&#8221; crocodiles<br \/>\nso to fall in would be Hell<br \/>\nKakadu and Litchfield<br \/>\nand Nitmiluk parks are<br \/>\npretty close to all of this<br \/>\nand Darwins not that far<br \/>\nFrom the airport to the city<br \/>\nmangroves along the street<br \/>\nare not frequented by swimmers<br \/>\nwho might end up as fresh meat<br \/>\nFor the hungry saltie crocodiles<br \/>\nthat are around these parts<br \/>\nThe Ghan signs off in Darwin<br \/>\nand breaks a few old hearts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the second part of the Ghan&#8217;s journey to Darwin <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/onwards-and-upwards-the-ghans-final-leg-of-its-journey-to-darwin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}