{"id":961,"date":"2010-06-16T08:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T12:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2010-06-16T08:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T12:37:49","slug":"polynesian-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/polynesian-delight\/","title":{"rendered":"Polynesian delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I have a secret jones for tiki culture. My iPod&#8217;s full of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceagepop.com\/baxter.htm\">Les Baxter<\/a>&#8216;s exotica, and my bookcase holds copies of <em>Trader Vic&#8217;s Tiki Party!<\/em> and Sven Kirsten&#8217;s indispensable <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookoftiki.com\/\">Book of Tiki<\/a><\/em>. Something about the <del datetime=\"2010-06-16T12:13:33+00:00\">misappropriation<\/del> creative remixing of other cultures really inspires me. <\/p>\n<p>I can draw a direct line between this interest and the fact that both times my parents took me to Walt Disney World as a kid (at age 5 and again at 10), we stayed at the Polynesian Resort. Something about the combination of indoor fountains and air conditioning still gets to me. (I can draw a similar line to my love of monorails.)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyshawn.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/enchanted-tiki-shop.html\">this quick review of the &#8220;Boutiki&#8221; shop at the resort<\/a>. I won&#8217;t steal any of Shawn Slater&#8217;s images, so you&#8217;ll have to click the link yourself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a secret jones for tiki culture. My iPod&#8217;s full of Les Baxter&#8216;s exotica, and my bookcase holds copies of Trader Vic&#8217;s Tiki Party! and Sven Kirsten&#8217;s indispensable Book of Tiki. Something about the misappropriation creative remixing of other cultures really inspires me. I can draw a direct line between this interest and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-gregs-reference","category-rant-andor-rave","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-fv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}